‘Jobs, Marathi manoos, Mumbai’: Aaditya Thackeray revives Sena’s nativist roots, with a moderate touch
Mumbai: The gloves were off within the Shiv Sena’s rank and file in 2022 when the party split into two factions, with several MLAs lamenting that it was no longer Bal Thackeray’s belligerent outfit. ‘Too soft, too moderate’ was the message.
Other than Bal Thackeray’s successor Uddhav Thackeray, the aggrieved MLAs largely blamed Thackeray scion Aaditya for this “transformation” of the Shiv Sena.
As the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray), or the Shiv Sena (UBT), gears up for its most important election that’s linked to its future, the outfit is back to its original agendas—nativism and a battle for Mumbai.
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At Matoshree, the Thackeray residence in Mumbai’s Bandra East, 34-year-old Aaditya insists that the party under his father had never cha...