Even if I take slightly flexible political stance, it won’t be...

Key Highlights

• The Uddhav Thackeray-led party openly expressed disappointment over MNS corporators’ move of siding with the rival party.
• In a post written on X on the 100th birth anniversary of Shiv Sena founder and his uncle late Bal Thackeray, Raj Thackeray said, “Today loyalties are easily sold off.
• Principles are casually discarded, and politics has become entirely opportunistic.
• In today’s politics, success is measured not by which issues were brought to the forefront, or how fiercely regional and linguistic identities were kept alive, but by how much success was achieved in electoral politics and what tricks are employed to get there.” “In Balasaheb’s time, there were no such compromises with expectations like these…He himself had no craving for power…Even when Balasaheb had to take a flexible stance in politics at times, his love for the Marathi people never diminished even by a fraction; on the contrary, it only grew stronger.
• These are the values instilled in us,” the MNS president said.