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In search of a lost cause ; In a desperate attempt to come out of his political exile, Raj Thackeray courts controversy by playing the Maratha pride card and creates a sectarian divide in India's economic powerhouse Mumbai.
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Imitation, they say, is the best form of flattery, but when
political orphans like Raj Thackeray blindly duplicate archaic
agendas of old leaders like Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray, the
result can only be disastrous.
Two years after he quit the
party to launch an inclusive and wider secular party, the
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS), Raj is still in search of an
agenda.
In the two years since the fallout with his famous
uncle, he has failed to make any impact on the state'...
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