Overview

• Uddhav Thackeray and Raj Thackeray have publicly signaled openness to set aside past rifts if parties opposing Maharashtra’s interests are excluded
• Posters in Mumbai’s Girgaon area demanding the cousins unite reflect rising street-level enthusiasm for a Thackeray alliance
• Maha Vikas Aghadi allies Supriya Sule and Harshvardhan Sapkal have welcomed the prospect and set anti-BJP commitment as a condition
• BJP figures such as Nitesh Rane and Pankaja Munde have dismissed the potential reunion as politically insignificant
• Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has refrained from commenting while Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut and Aaditya Thackeray urge a forward-looking strategy