Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis jocularly accepted credit for the reunion of Thackeray cousins Uddhav Thackeray and Raj Thackeray, saying, “I was able to do what no one could”.
Speaking at the NDTV conclave Marathi Manch, Fadnavis said, “Today’s political space makes them believe they can increase their share by coming together”. “I thank Raj Thackeray for giving me credit for the Thackeray reunion, I was able to do what no one else could,” he said.
In his address at a massive victory rally in Mumbai’s Worli, after the Maharashtra government rolled back two resolutions aimed at introducing Hindi as a third language in the state schools, Maharashtra Navnirman chief Raj Thackeray had said: “Uddhav (Thackeray) and I are coming together after 20 years… What Balasaheb Thackeray could not do, thousands others couldn’t do, Devendra Fadnavis managed to do that.”
The Thackerays — estranged since 2005 — had got together earlier this year ahead of the civic polls. They have their eyes on the Brihanmumbai Corpo
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