Thackeray Cousins Reunite: A Historic Rally for Marathi Pride in Maharashtra

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Thackeray Cousins Reunite: A Historic Rally for Marathi Pride in Maharashtra

Thackeray Cousins Reunite: A Historic Rally for Marathi Pride in Maharashtra

In a landmark second for Maharashtra’s political panorama, estranged cousins Uddhav Thackeray and Raj Thackeray, leaders of Shiv Sena (UBT) and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) respectively, shared a stage on July 5, 2025, for the primary time in almost decades. The joint “victory rally” at Mumbai’s NSCI Dome in Worli, titled Awaj Marathicha (Voice of Marathi), celebrated the Maharashtra government’s rollback of a controversial 3-language policy that had mandated Hindi as a obligatory subject in number one faculties. This rare reunion, pushed with the aid of their shared commitment to Marathi identification, has sparked massive speculation approximately its implications for Maharashtra’s political future, mainly with important civic body polls looming.

A Shared Cause: Opposing Hindi Imposition The catalyst for this ancient reunion became the Maharashtra government’s decision to withdraw government resolutions (GRs) that proposed making Hindi obligatory as a 3rd language in number one schools. The rally, first of all planned as a protest, transformed into a celebration of this victory, symbolizing a unified stand for Marathi Asmita (pleasure). The Awaj Marathicha event became carefully curated to emphasise Marathi cohesion over birthday celebration politics. Notably, the rally prevented the usage of birthday party symbols or flags, offering handiest a graphic photograph of Maharashtra and the names of Raj

Thackeray's cousin reunion: A new chapter or a political gambit for Marathi identity? In a historic turn of events, Uddhav Thackeray, Head of Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thakere), and Raj Thackeray, President of Maharashtra Navneman Sena (MNS), again on July 5, 2025 for NSCI Dome in Mumbai, July, which is in Mumbai's NSCI Dome for Marthi. It marked its first joint public presence in nearly two decades, celebrating the rollback of a controversial three language policy of the Government of Maharashtra, which proposed to make Hindi a mandatory third language in primary schools. In the event, a "Vijay rally" has been described, has debated Marathi identity, regional politics and the upcoming Bhanambhi Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections before the possibility of earthquake change in the political scenario of Maharashtra. Background: A decades-a crack Thakere cousin, once closed all colleagues in undivided Shiv Sena led by Bal Thackeray, participated in 2005 in 2005 due to the news of differences on leadership roles. Raj, the nephew of Bal Thackeray left the Shiv Sena in January 2006, to form MNS, the son of the ball accused him of sidelining him. This partition was sharp, Raj alleged that Uddhav's leadership style and decisions, including Bal Thackeray's health, contributed to his collapse. In these years, the cousin did Barbes business, competed with his parties for the same Marathi -speaking voter base, often with contradictory political alignment. Last time when Udav and Raj shared a platform, during the 2005 Malavan Assembly Bipol Abhiyan, a fleeting moment before defining the regional politics of Maharashtra. MNS initially received traction, won 13 seats in the 2009 assembly elections, but its impact decreased, failed