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Local bodies and Marathi compulsions or is Fadnavis trying to "cut down to size"his deputy Eknath Shinde

The Thursday meeting between friends-turned-foes Uddhav Thackeray and Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has generated a lot of speculation and buzz in the corridors of Maharashtra politics.

The given reason was that it was about the post of the Leader of the Opposition in the state assembly. However, coming a day after Fadnavis''s "join us" comment, which Uddhav Thackeray dismissed as a "joke" it created a whole lot of buzz.

The 20-minute meeting was in the ante-chamber of Vidhan Parishad Chairman Ram Shinde a...