The 56-year-old founder of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) has decided to maintain an equidistant approach to the BJP-led Maha Yuti and the Congress-led Maha Vikas Aghadi.
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Mumbai: For the charismatic Raj Thackeray, the 2024 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly elections, are a make-or-break moment.
Raj, who is going solo in this year’s polls has been telling the people not to get scared of “there is no alternative” theory propagated by bigger parties.
Rightly, as Raj draws inspiration from Ekalavya, the character from epic Mahabharata.
A poem penned by Dr Vageesh Saraswat, a journalist-writer and filmmaker, who is a senior functionary of MNS, is liked by Raj.
“Ekalavya anghuta katwakar, hamesha chatpatayange. Satya ka virodh Drona ki mazboori hai. Rajguru ki padvi zaroori hai. Dronacharya badal nahin sakte. Badal nahi sakte Kaurav aur Pandav. Magaar badal sakte hai Ekalavya. Shraddha ke shaap se ho sakte hain mukt” – these couplets from ’Eklavya ka Angutha’ sums up his challenges.
Raj is an excellent cartoonist and caricaturist and an orator-par-excellence like his late uncle and mentor.
The 56-year-old founder of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) has decided to maintain an equidistant approach to the BJP-led Maha Yuti and the Congress-led Maha Vikas Aghadi.