India, Jan. 24 -- On Friday, to mark the start of Shiv Sena founder Balasaheb Thackeray's birth centennial year, cousins Uddhav and Raj Thackeray put up a united front, setting aside all talk of differences after five corporators of the Raj-led MNS extended their support to the deputy chief minister Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena in Kalyan.

Speaking at Shanmukhananda Hall, both Thackerays, recently united, stressed that it was 'Hinduhridaysamrat' Bal Thackeray who first united Hindus and also Maharashtra's sons of the soil.

At the function, their first joint appearance in public since the Mumbai civic elections, Uddhav and Raj, alliance partners in the civic elections, made it clear they would continue to push their "Marathi manoos" agenda...