Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray has said that Sena Executive President Uddhav Thackeray and his cousin Raj would "jointly take decisions" on important matters.
Raj Thackeray meets Bal Thackeray in what looks like an attempt to smooth out the recent crisis in the party.
The Sena, weakened after Raj Thackeray broke away floated his own party, is optimistic that it will win the prestigious and the most cash rich corporation in the country.
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The actor thanked Thackeray for his support to him and his family during their times of crisis
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The Shiv Sena chief accused the media of being a silent spectator to the vandalism indulged in by protestors
Maharashtra BJP chief and former deputy chief minister Gopinath Munde asked reporters not to read too much into Thackeray's absence at Tuesday night's Sena-BJP dinner meeting.
It is not clear, however, what has prompted them to write to Thackeray, and what do they expect from him in return.
'I have done everything openly. I have never had anything to hide,' says Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray.
The grandson of Leela Mashelkar, Manish, submitted a memorandum addressed to Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh demanding he be paid the compensation.
The Sena agreed to allow the BJP to contest the bypoll in Chimur.
BJP Maharashtra unit president Nitin Gadkari appeared to be the target of Sena's ire with its mouthpiece Saamna describing him as the nemesis of the alliance.
The BJP has had a raise in its share of seats from 105 in 1990 to 121 in 2004.
The Punjab Police said a comprehensive security plan has been worked out for the Mohali match against Pakistan.
"Everyone who stabs the Sena in the back should ponder over where they would have been had it not been for the Sena," Thackeray said.
'It was a reaffirmation of his party's unrelenting defiance of its erstwhile ally, the BJP; an attempt to forge a new relationship with the community the Shiv Sena had always targeted; and a pointer towards the political imperative of taking everyone along if the fight against the ruling party had to succeed,' notes Jyoti Punwani.
Thackeray is the editor of the daily while Nirupam was then the executive editor of the Hindi daily.
However, he said he will not dump his trusted aide and former Maharashtra chief minister Chhagan Bhujbal to forge this partnership, a condition put forth by Thackeray.
Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray on Monday said Muslims in the country are trying to increase their representation in Lok Sabha and asked Hindus to foil their attempt.
Noting that the President's actions did not reflect his esteemed position, Thackeray said Kalam was a leading scientist of the country but had lost the dignity of the post after he became President.
Outside Sena supremo Bal Thackeray home in Mumbai.
Rane announced his resignation as leader of opposition in the Maharashtra assembly on Saturday.
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray Tuesday said his uncle and Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray had asked him to stop using his photos banners, at "the behest of someone else".
'... their love was jinxed.' 'His celluloid path to his partner's heart was seldom smooth; it had to contend with greedy relatives and indecisive sweethearts, who were more ready to sacrifice than woo and wed.'
"If you want to select the day, then select it in the name of Laila-Majnu, Heer-Ranjha and Bajirao Peshwe-Mastani," he said.
Former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, under attack from within his own party, has found an ally in Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray.
The dinner meeting was supposed to take place on Tuesday night at a five-star hotel in suburban Andheri in Mumbai.
"He was raised here at Matoshree, played with other children. I never expected that he would go so far. I don't know who misguided him, but they did so to fulfil their own gains," Thackeray said.
The BJP's attempt was to show that it would be a different ballgame altogether in the civic and zilla parishad polls scheduled in the next few months, which were no less than a mini-general election in the state, sources said.
All those who have left Sena should return: Bal Thackeray.
"If I get a proposal from the Congress, I will consider," he told reporters in Ajmer. He added that Gandhi was competent to lead the country.
Thackeray was writing in an editorial in Sena mouthpiece "Saamna".
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