Where the Thackerays are, drama follows, as it did on Saturday as the estranged cousins, Uddhav and Raj, apart for more than 20 long years, met face-to-face in a Mumbai auditorium, embraced one another, and shared the stage as thousands watched. The occasion was one of celebration. Their threat of a massive public demonstration had forced the Devendra Fadnavis-led government of Maharashtra to withdraw two Government Resolutions introducing Hindi as the third language in schools across the state. Sensing a trap to diminish Marathi, the Thackerays buried their differences and energised their cadres—of the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena—to fire a few shots.

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