Mumbai, June 13 -- Amid intense speculation about his party joining hands with the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT), Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray met on Thursday met Maharashtra at the Taj Lands End hotel in Mumbai in the run-up to the local body polls in the state, creating a major stir in the state political circles.
Though this is not for the first time that Fadnavis and Raj have met, their Thursday's meeting came as a surprise - coming as it did in the backdrop of the eagerness shown by Shiv Sena (UBT) president Uddhav Thackeray and the MNS chief to have a political tie-up between them. The meeting lasted for an hour. However, there was no word from either Fadnavis or Raj about the import of the meeting. The...