As Thackerays come full circle with socialist 'friends', a look at political compulsions then & now

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The outfit, led by Bal Thackeray at the time, forged an alliance with the Praja Socialist Party and fought the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) election that year...

Much before the Shiv Sena was formed, Bal Thackerays father, Keshav Sitaram Thackeray, better known as Prabodhankar Thackeray a rationalist used to sit shoulder-to-shoulder with Leftist leaders, such as Shreedhar Mahadev Joshi, Shripad Dange, Narayan Gore, Annabhau Sathe and Prahlad Keshav Atre as part of the Samyukta Maharashtra Samiti...

Speaking at a meeting of representatives of the 21 socialist parties with the Shiv Sena (UBT) Sunday, Uddhav Thackeray reminisced about some of the stories that his grandfather used to tell him from the time of the Samyukta Maharashtra movement...

Leftist leaders found it ironic as Patil had favoured the separation of the then Bombay city from Maharashtra during the Samyukta Maharashtra movement with which the Shiv Sena likes to associate citing Prabodhankar Thackerays contribution, analysts said.. Fernandes eventually triumphed over Patil...

On Sunday, justifying the Shiv Sena (UBT)s alliance with socialist parties, both Sanjay Raut, the partys MP in the Rajya Sabha, and Uddhav Thackeray touched upon the times of the Samyukta Maharashtra movement and the respect that Thackerays held for socialist leaders...

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