India, Aug. 8 -- While on a trip to New Delhi for an INDIA bloc partners' meeting, when Shiv Sena (UBT) president Uddhav Thackeray was questioned by media persons on Thursday about the bloc's role in forging an alliance between his party and his cousin Raj Thackeray's Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS), Thackeray said, "We two brothers are capable of deciding on an alliance with each other and the INDIA bloc has nothing to do with it. There are no terms and conditions regarding this." He added that the alliance with MNS was a separate issue about which he will "speak only in Maharashtra".

Thackeray added that any decision on the alliance with MNS, ahead of the local body polls, will not affect his ties with the INDIA bloc.

On the other ha...