Despite the setbacks, Thackeray’s Sena (UBT) nonetheless has the sympathy issue going for it. But it’s an uphill process, managing the alliance, wooing new voter blocs and protecting his core Marathi vote intact
Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray meets the press at his residence, Matoshree, in Mumbai, Jan. 10; (Photo: Hindustan Times)
ISSUE DATE: Mar 18, 2024 | UPDATED: Mar 9, 2024 13:28 IST
A debilitating cut up within the social gathering, a recalibration of political affiliations and a sequence of authorized reverses. Things haven’t been going effectively for Uddhav Thackeray since his partyman Eknath Shinde walked out of the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) authorities with 39 different MLAs and joined arms with the BJP in June 2022. Not solely did it deliver Thackeray’s two-and-a-half-year chief ministership to an abrupt finish, it left him and his faction—the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) or Sena (UBT)—with little to financial institution on except the sympathy vote of the Marathi manoos and the potential for gaining a foothold among the many minorities.
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