Key Points
In almost every alternate election, Thackerays MNS has swung from aggressively campaigning for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) or against it, coming up with compelling justifications for its stance each time...
Thackeray Tuesday met Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Delhi along with his son and MNS leader Amit Thackeray at a time when the ruling allies in Maharashtra BJP, Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena, and the Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) have been negotiating seat sharing for the upcoming parliamentary polls...
In the 2014 assembly elections in Maharashtra, Thackeray had chosen to slam all other players in Maharashtra, be it the undivided Shiv Sena, the undivided NCP, the BJP, or the Congress..
At the time, Shiv Senas Uddhav Thackeray was facing flak from the BJP as well as a section of Maharashtras population about having allegedly abandoned the Hindutva agenda by tying up with the NCP and the Congress..
After the vertical split in the Uddhav Thackeray-led undivided Shiv Sena, talks of the BJP joining hands with Raj Thackerays MNS either through an open alliance or through a covert understanding started gaining ground further..
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