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MNS main Raj Thackeray (ANI photo/File)
NEW DELHI: Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) president Raj Thackeray posted a cryptic societal media connection connected Friday, saying that if helium ever took a “flexible stance” successful politics, it would ne'er beryllium driven by "personal gain."His remarks came connected the 100th commencement day of his uncle, Bal Thackeray, the laminitis of the undivided Shiv Sena. Raj Thackeray near the Sena successful 2005 and launched the MNS the pursuing year.The MNS main posted connected X successful Marathi, "Today loyalties are easy sold off. Principles are casually discarded, and authorities has go wholly opportunistic. In today's politics, occurrence is measured not by which issues were brought to the forefront oregon however fiercely determination and linguistic identities were kept alive, but by however overmuch occurrence was achieved successful electoral authorities and what tricks are employed to get there.
""In Balasaheb's time, determination were nary specified compromises with expectations similar these...He himself had nary craving for power...Even erstwhile Balasaheb had to instrumentality a flexible stance successful authorities astatine times, his emotion for the Marathi radical ne'er diminished adjacent by a fraction; connected the contrary, it lone grew stronger. These are the values instilled successful us," helium wrote.Thackeray added that helium is giving his connection that if helium ever took a "slightly flexible stance successful this wholly transformed politics," it would "never beryllium for my idiosyncratic summation oregon selfish interests."
His connection comes 2 days aft 5 MNS corporators extended enactment to Maharashtra lawman main curate
Eknath Shinde
's Shiv Sena successful the Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC) successful the Thane district.The determination raised eyebrows, arsenic the enactment had contested the January 15 civic polls alongside the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT) successful respective municipal corporations crossed the state, including the KDMC and Mumbai.
The MNS-Sena (UBT) confederation had reunited Raj with Uddhav, Bal Thackeray's lad and erstwhile Maharashtra main minister, aft 20 years of estrangement.Shiv Sena (UBT) is simply a faction of the antecedently undivided Shiv Sena, the different being the Shinde-led group. The enactment divided successful June 2022, resulting successful the 2 factions, with the Shinde campy recognised by the Election Commission arsenic the "real" Shiv Sena. The divided besides led to the illness of the Uddhav Thackeray-led authorities government.(With PTI inputs)
