<p>Mumbai: After the Thackeray-family’s commitment towards jointmanship towards the larger cause of Marathi-manoos and Marathi-bhasha, the Shiv Sena (UBT) and MNS seem to be taking baby steps towards a political alliance. </p><p>Shiv Sena (UBT) head Uddhav Thackeray and MNS founder-President Raj Thackeray have dropped enough hints for a political tie-up so that the message goes down among the party cadre. </p><p>As a first step, the two parties will jointly contest the elections to the BEST Employees Cooperative Credit Society Ltd, which is scheduled on August 18.</p><p>The BEST Kamgar Sena and MNS Kamgar Sena have joined hands to float Utkarsh Panel, which will contest the polls. </p><p>The committee has 21 seats. </p>.Amid Rahul's 'vote theft' claim, Sharad Pawar says he was offered 160-seat win by duo ahead of Maharashtra polls.<p>While the BEST Kamgar Sena will contest 18 of the 21 seats, the MNS Kamgar Sena will contest two and the BEST SC/ST Employees Welfare Association will contest one seat as part of the alliance.</p><p>Ahead of the polls, BEST Kamgar Sena President Suhas Samant and MNS Mumbai President Sandeep Deshpande have held discussions over the issue. </p><p>The BrihanMumbai Electricity Supply and Transport Undertaking (BEST) is Mumbai civic transporter and power supplier. </p><p>The development is significant in the run up to the local bodies elections in Maharashtra - when 29 municipal corporations including the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) too would go to polls. </p><p>Any Raj-Uddhav alliance will have an impact over the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), which comprises Congress, Shiv Sena (UBT) and Sharad Pawar-headed NCP (SP).</p><p>Uddhav, who is a key leader of the Congress-led INDIA opposition bloc, during his New Delhi visit, has discussed the possibility of Shiv Sena (UBT)-MNS alliance, with Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi.</p><p>The key question is whether Raj would be formally inducted into the opposition bloc or not. </p><p>After the support that the UBT Sena-MNS received with it took up the cause of Marathi language by opposing introduction of Hindi language at primary levels in Marathi and English medium schools of Maharashtra, the local units of the two parties have increased interaction at the ground level. </p>
<p>Mumbai: After the Thackeray-family’s commitment towards jointmanship towards the larger cause of Marathi-manoos and Marathi-bhasha, the Shiv Sena (UBT) and MNS seem to be taking baby steps towards a political alliance. </p><p>Shiv Sena (UBT) head Uddhav Thackeray and MNS founder-President Raj Thackeray have dropped enough hints for a political tie-up so that the message goes down among the party cadre. </p><p>As a first step, the two parties will jointly contest the elections to the BEST Employees Cooperative Credit Society Ltd, which is scheduled on August 18.</p><p>The BEST Kamgar Sena and MNS Kamgar Sena have joined hands to float Utkarsh Panel, which will contest the polls. </p><p>The committee has 21 seats. </p>.Amid Rahul's 'vote theft' claim, Sharad Pawar says he was offered 160-seat win by duo ahead of Maharashtra polls.<p>While the BEST Kamgar Sena will contest 18 of the 21 seats, the MNS Kamgar Sena will contest two and the BEST SC/ST Employees Welfare Association will contest one seat as part of the alliance.</p><p>Ahead of the polls, BEST Kamgar Sena President Suhas Samant and MNS Mumbai President Sandeep Deshpande have held discussions over the issue. </p><p>The BrihanMumbai Electricity Supply and Transport Undertaking (BEST) is Mumbai civic transporter and power supplier. </p><p>The development is significant in the run up to the local bodies elections in Maharashtra - when 29 municipal corporations including the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) too would go to polls. </p><p>Any Raj-Uddhav alliance will have an impact over the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), which comprises Congress, Shiv Sena (UBT) and Sharad Pawar-headed NCP (SP).</p><p>Uddhav, who is a key leader of the Congress-led INDIA opposition bloc, during his New Delhi visit, has discussed the possibility of Shiv Sena (UBT)-MNS alliance, with Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi.</p><p>The key question is whether Raj would be formally inducted into the opposition bloc or not. </p><p>After the support that the UBT Sena-MNS received with it took up the cause of Marathi language by opposing introduction of Hindi language at primary levels in Marathi and English medium schools of Maharashtra, the local units of the two parties have increased interaction at the ground level. </p>