Pune, Jan. 16 -- Maharashtra minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Chandrakant Patil on Friday raised doubts over the alliance of the two previously estranged cousins, Uddhav and Raj Thackeray, for the recently concluded Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). Patil claimed that people understood the Shiv Sena (UBT)-Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) alliance to be driven by "selfish motives" rather than public interest.

"Whether the Thackeray brothers come together or Congress and NCP join hands, it is not in the interest of the people. People have understood that this is for their own selfish motives," Patil told ANI.

Expressing confidence in the BJP-Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde) alliance, the minister said that the coalition w...