Mumbai, Sept. 11 -- Shiv Sena (UBT) president Uddhav Thackeray visited the residence of his cousin and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray on Wednesday afternoon for a meeting that lasted two hours and 45 minutes, fuelling speculation that the two are planning a political reunion for the upcoming local body polls across Maharashtra. After the meeting, both cousins chose to remain silent about what transpired between them and refused to speak to the media. While leaders from both parties told HT on the condition of anonymity that the cousins discussed an alliance for the local body polls, Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut claimed that the meeting was not political. He said that Uddhav had visited Raj's residence to meet his aunt. However, the meeting, ahead of Uddhav's Dussehra rally on October 2, led to further speculation of whether there would be an announcement regarding a Shiv Sena (UBT)-MNS alliance for the civic polls. This was the second time Uddhav had visited Raj's Shivaji Park residence, Shiv Teerth, in the last 15 days. The former chief minister, along with his family, had also visited his cousin's home on August 27 for Ganesh Chaturthi. Before that, on July 27, Raj had visited Uddhav's residence, Matoshree, to wish him on his birthday. These meetings of the Thackeray cousins followed their joint victory rally on July 5 to celebrate the Mahayuti government's decision to roll back its decision to introduce Hindi as the third language in primary education. The rally was the first time the estranged cousins had been seen together in public since Raj left the undivided Shiv Sena in 2005 due to differences with Uddhav. Later, on August 15, Raut had said that the Thackeray cousins would contest civic polls in Mumbai, Thane, Kalyan-Dombivli and Nashik together. "Leaders from both parties have started ground-level discussions and preparations to contest the civic body polls in alliance. We will show what an alliance of Thackeray brothers can do in Maharashtra," said Avinash Jadhav, an MNS leader from Thane. "In the Dussehra rally, Uddhav Thackeray guides party workers about the future course of action. So now, both brothers must have spoken about that," said a leader, adding that he didn't know whether Uddhav had invited Raj for the Dussehra rally....