Thackeray cousins meet once more amid alliance buzz

Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) head Raj Thackeray met once more on Sunday (October 5, 2025), this time for a private occasion, amid hypothesis concerning the cousins allying for the upcoming native physique polls.

The Thackeray cousins attended the naming ceremony of Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut’s grandchild in Mumbai.

Videos of Mr. Raj, Mr.Uddhav and his MLA son Aaditya Thackeray, together with Shiv Sena (UBT) leaders Anil Desai and Milind Narvekar chatting in a playful temper surfaced on social media.

The conferences between Mr. Raj and Mr. Uddhav have grow to be extra frequent after their July 5 ‘victory’ rally to rejoice the Maharashtra authorities’s rollback of its contentious orders on the three-language components for college students of courses 1 to five amid prices of imposition of Hindi within the state dominated by Marathi audio system.

In September 2025, former State Chief Minister Mr. Uddhav visited the MNS President’s residence ‘Shivtirth’ within the Dadar space in Mumbai to satisfy the latter’s mom, Kunda ‘Mavshi’ (mom’s sister). Both Mr. Raj and Mr. Uddhav are maternal in addition to paternal cousins. Mr. Uddhav visited ‘Shivtirth’ in August beforehand on Ganesh pageant.

In the tip of July, Mr. Raj visited ‘Matoshree’, the residence of Mr. Uddhav in Mumbai’s Bandra space, to want the latter on his birthday. Although Mr. Raj give up the undivided Shiv Sena in 2005, blaming Mr. Uddhav for his exit, the drubbing of their events within the 2024 meeting polls seems to have pushed the rivals to enhance ties.

Both events have dropped sufficient hints of forging an alliance for the upcoming polls to native our bodies, together with the cash-rich Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), however haven’t but introduced a proper tie-up.

If the alliance occurs, the BJP, a fierce critic of the Shiv Sena (UBT), will likely be its primary rival. The Shiv Sena (UBT), Congress, and Sharad Pawar-led NCP (SP) are companions within the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA).

Amid the thrill over their pan-Maharashtra alliance, the Sena (UBT) and MNS confronted a setback in August within the election to the BEST Employees Cooperative Credit Society Ltd., the place the panel backed by the 2 events misplaced all 21 seats up for grabs.