India, Sept. 13 -- In a clear signal to the cadres of both parties, the Shiv Sena (UBT) and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) on Friday held a joint march in Nashik, the Jan Akrosh Morcha, to highlight issues such as rising crime, narcotic peddling, irregularities in local bodies and the poor state of affairs in the city.

Senior leaders Sanjay Raut and Bala Nandgaonkar just stopped short of formally announcing an alliance between the two parties but warned the ruling Mahayuti to be ready to face the "effect of the Thackeray cousins' reunion". Raut declared that the two parties would henceforth hold protests and programmes together while Nandgaonkar called the two cousins the "two eyes of Lord Shiva".

The Nashik march was organised by Dat...