Raj's move is seen as the result of a fallout with cousin Udhdhav.
In the concluding part of an interview to his party's mouthpiece, Saamna, Thackeray said Maharashtra would have had an upper hand in the country's politics if Pawar had joined hands with him.
BJP leaders say one thing at their brainstorming session and another outside, The Sena chief said.
Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray wanted to transfer of a defamation case filed against him.
The Shiv Sena chief's hard-hitting response came after Samajwadi Party leaders threatened to `break the hand' that is raised against people from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.
It was a show of strength-- of the Sena supporters, the Rane supporters and the Mumbai police.\n\nThe police won hands down.
'Sonia took Rajiv to Sicily island for their safety when India was fighting the war with Pakistan in 1971,' the Shiv Sena chief told party mouthpiece Saamna in Mumbai.
However, Rane made it clear that he had no intentions of leaving the Sena.
Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray on Saturday said his party will part ways with the Bharatiya Janata Party if the latter continued to distance itself from the Hindutva agenda.
Pawar said the decision to seat the leaders together was taken by organisers as they felt it would revive the memories of their presence at the silver jubilee of the monumental masterpiece of G D Madgulkar 25 years ago.
The column, written by Sanjay Raut, hinted that the Sena would stay firm on its demands before government formation with the BJP.
The Sena chief blamed the divestment policy of the NDA regime for its poor showing in the Lok Sabha election.
Nirupam said differences over North Indians migrating to Mumbai led to his decision to sever ties with the Sena.
Political observers say nothing much should be read into the Sena chief's remarks about his new advisory role.
The cricketer had said that the Sena chief is not against Muslims and lamented that certain vested interests were bent upon tarnishing his image by describing him as 'anti-Muslim'.
"The fact is a Maratha from Maharashtra has become slave of a foreign lady. At least Maratha leaders should not do that,' he said.
The police do not have it in them to confront the Hindutva groups in a country ruled by a Hindutva party. No wonder Munawar Faruqui feels this is the end for him, asserts Jyoti Punwani.
The Bombay high court had sentenced the Sena chief to years' imprisonment in a contempt case.
The party was fined Rs 20 lakh by the Bombay High Court on June 22 2005 on a Public Interest Litigation alleging that the city suffered a loss of Rs 50 lakhs due to the bandh.
Advani arrived in the metropolis on Monday to attend some private functions.
'Whenever he speaks in the Rajya Sabha, he entertains the members,' the Sena chief said.
Shiv Sena Chief Bal Thackeray on Wednesday said that late Zail Singh, while he was the President, had expressed gratitude to him for saving the lives of members of the Sikh community in Mumbai.
The auction by National Textile Corporation for the 4.8 acre Kohinoor Mill No 3 land in Dadar area has been won by city-based Kohinoor CTN for Rs 421 crore.
Following is the chronology of events in the 1992 Babri Masjid demolition case.
They met at Thackeray's suburban Bandra residence in Mumbai.
'The moment the NDA government came down, most of the allies moved out of the partnership,' he 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.
An editorial in Sena mouthpiece Saamana said it was never decided that the grand temple will be constructed through public donations, and political campaigning in the name of Lord Ram has to be stopped at some point of time.
Ravindra Mhatre's car had run into four people, killing two and injuring two others, at Vile Parle, a Mumbai suburb.
Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray on Friday appeared to have softened his opposition to CAS after a two-hour meeting with I&B Ravi Shankar Prasad and a senior official of the PMO.
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