India, July 6 -- The overwhelming response to the joint MNS-Shiv Sena (UBT) rally on Saturday could be bad news for the BJP-led Mahayuti alliance ahead of local body elections. And, yet, the ruling BJP and Shiv Sena appear to have taken a lenient approach towards MNS chief Raj Thackeray, while unleashing heavy artillery on Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray for his "greed for power".

Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis responded to Raj's sarcastic comment, that Fadnavis had achieved what even Bal Thackeray couldn't, by getting the cousins to unite, saying he was "grateful to Thackeray for his complement". Fadnavis, however, ignored Raj's comment on BJP leader LK Advani, where he remarked that Advani had attended St Patrick's School run by Ch...