India, Dec. 2 -- In long-distance photography, there is a technique. You make all the settings and keep the frame ready. As soon as the subject enters the frame, click the button. It will be a perfect picture. This technique is used in sports and wildlife photography. What it needs is patience, more than high-end photographic gear.

Shiv Sena's Uddhav Thackeray is a photographer who knows this technique, having dabbled in wildlife and nature photography. The youngest of his brothers, he had been lying low in politics. Many thought that he did not have it in him when his cousin, the more loquacious Raj Shrikant Thackeray formed his own party and started hitting the headlines in the media.

Uddhav Thackeray kept his cool for he knew that as l...