All eyes are on Thursday's Dussehra rally to be held by Shiv Sena (UBT) Chief Uddhav Thackeray in Mumbai. The buzz is that some kind of reunion, if not an alliance, may be announced between Uddhav Thackeray's Shiv Sena and his estranged cousin Raj Thackeray's party, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, or MNS.

Will this actually happen, or is it only a rumour? And if such a reunion or alliance is announced, will it be limited to Mumbai municipal polls, or will it cover the entire state of Maharashtra? There are many questions in the minds of even the followers of the Thackeray cousins, as nothing has been told to most of them as yet, 24 hours before the Dussehra rally! But one thing is certain: many new equations will be set all over the state if the Thackeray cousins announce some kind of a political alliance for the forthcoming civic polls.

The possible reunion of the Thackerays may change a lot of prospects, especially in the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation, Asia's richest civic body. In the last civic polls, there was a close contest between the BJP and the Shiv Sena. The saffron partners, who had been in an alliance for over two and a half decades, fought a bitter battle, and Uddhav emerged with a slight edge over the BJP to get power in the civic body.

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