Key Points
The recent meeting between Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray and the BJP leadership has ruffled feathers in Maharashtra politics..
If the talks are fruitful, the western state would see a Thackeray joining forces with a BJP-led alliance after 2019, when Raj's estranged brother Uddhav Thackeray walked away from the National Democratic Alliance...
This was followed by Raj Thackeray meeting Union Home Minister Amit Shah, which led to speculations of an alliance between the two parties ahead of the upcoming general elections and Maharashtra Assembly election later this year...
Among them is Raj Thackeray merging his party with Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena and fighting the election on the party's traditional 'bow and arrow' symbol...
According to a CSDS National Election Survey, 39 per cent Maratha-Kunbis preferred the Shiv Sena, 28 per cent the Nationalist Congress Party, 20 per cent the BJP and 9 per cent the Congress in the Lok Sabha elections in 2019...
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