This year again, Shiv Sena (UBT) and the Shinde-led faction will hold rallies in Mumbai to claim themselves as the true inheritor of the founder Bal Thackeray’s legacy.
Ever since the split in Shiv Sena in June last year, the two factions have been engaged in a tussle to claim the legacy.
While Uddhav Thackeray will address his party’s Dussehra rally at the sprawling Shivaji Park in Dadar, the traditional venue of the event where Bal Thackeray charged up his workers with his fiery oration for more than four decades, Shinde’s rally will be at Azad Maidan in south Mumbai.
In the run-up to the rallies, the Thackeray faction has released several video clips of Bal Thackeray’s speeches, especially those highlighting action that needs to be taken against defectors. On the other hand Shinde faction’s teasers about its rally have Bal Thackeray’s speeches where he has robustly embraced the cause of Hindutva.