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Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) will contest the upcoming civic polls in Mumbai and other cities together as cousins Uddhav Thackeray and Raj Thackeray have formed an alliance, said Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Friday.

Raut claimed that Uddhav and Raj Thackeray enjoy support from the Marathi community, adding that talks are underway between the two leaders for future course of action.

Civic polls will take place in Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Thane, Kalyan-Dombivali, Ulhasnagar, Bhiwandi-Nizamapur, Vasai-Virar, Mira-Bhayandar and Panvel, apart from other cities including Nashik.

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"The Thackeray brothers (Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray and Raj Thackeray) will contest the municipal corporation elections in Mumbai, Thane, Nashik and Kalyan-Dombivali together and win. The strength of Raj and Uddhav Thackeray is the strength of the unity of the Marathi-speakers. No power cannot break the iron fist of `Marathi manus' now," Raut told reporters, as per news agency PTI.

Pravin Darekar, a state BJP legislator, said it was unclear whether the two Thackeray cousins had held any talks or if it was all Raut's "guesswork". "We have not seen so much helplessness in Uddhav Thackeray, who did not remember his own cousin, MNS chief Raj Thackeray for the last 20 years," he said.

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Meanwhile, Maharashtra minister and BJP leader Girish Mahajan said the Sena (UBT) remembers Marathi-speakers only when elections are near.

Raj Thackeray parted ways with the then Shiv Sena in 2005 over a fallout with Uddhav Thackerayand went on to form MNS. Since then, the two had fought elections against each other.