For over a fortnight, the regional media in Maharashtra, especially news channels, have been speculating whether the estranged Thackeray cousins, Uddhav and Raj, are likely to come together to fight the upcoming polls of Mumbai, Thane and other municipalities.

In the age of social media, this speculation and the videos showing on various media platforms, explaining how this unification is perhaps possible, have gone viral all over the state, and every citizen interested in the political developments is now talking about it.

A similar speculation has been about the possibility of the two factions of the Nationalist Congress Party, or NCP, coming together in the near future after NCP founder Sharad Pawar was heard saying that the decision on the same was to be taken by party MP Supriya Sule as he was planning on becoming inactive soon.

Discussions are on in Maharashtra’s political sphere about whether the Thackeray cousins and the Pawar uncle and nephew would be joining hands, and will the BJP, which seems totally in control of the political scenario in the state, really allow this to happen?

It is now obvious that after the direction from the Supreme Court, the civic polls in over a dozen Municipal Corporations in Maharashtra, including Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Thane, Pune, etc., will be held just after the monsoon season.

Along with this, polls in over 25 district councils or zilla parishads will also be held. This makes the upcoming elections look........

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