‘We came together to stay together’: Uddhav Thackeray at first rally with Raj Thackeray in 19 years
At their first joint rally in nearly two decades, Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday said that he and his cousin Raj Thackeray had “come together to stay together”.
“We have united to protect Marathi,” Uddhav Thackeray told supporters of his Shiv Sena faction and those of Raj Thackeray’s Maharashtra Navnirman Sena at the rally in Mumbai. “I want to tell you all that us coming together is just a trailer. This is just the beginning.”
Uddhav Thackeray expressed confidence that he, along with his cousin, would win the civic body elections in Mumbai and other cities of Maharashtra. The civic body elections in Mumbai are expected to take place later this year, while the Assembly elections are scheduled in 2029.
The two leaders had announced the joint rally on June 27 to protest against the state government’s proposal to teach Hindi as the third language to students from Class 1 to Class 5 in Marathi and English medium schools.
However, after the government withdrew the resolution, the two parties decided to hold a joint “victory rally” on Saturday.
In 2005, Raj Thackeray quit the undivided Shiv Sena and formed the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena a year later.
The Shiv Sena and the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena have been political rivals for the past two decades.
On Saturday, the...
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