While many political families will be against each other in the forthcoming state polls, will the estranged Thackeray cousins set an example for others if their sons are in the Assembly fray in Worli and Mahim? Speculation is rife that if Raj Thackeray’s son Amit is fielded in Mahim, the Sena (UBT) may not oppose him, and the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) may reciprocate by not rivalling Uddhav Thackeray’s son, and sitting MLA, Aaditya, in the neighbouring Worli segment, where MNS did not oppose him in his debut in 2019. 

Talks about Amit Thackeray’s candidature have begun with MNS workers urging his father to put his son, the chief of the party’s youth wing, in the electoral contest in Mahim which the Sena (UBT) will have in the MVA seat-sharing. It is said that a section of the Sena (UBT) has suggested that the party shouldn’t contest Mahim if Amit Thackeray enters the ring. If such a gesture comes from the cousin, the political circles expect Raj’s party to refrain from contesting the adjacent Worli constituency, where MNS is preparing for the battle, among many others in Mumbai and the rest of Maharashtra. In the 2019 elections,  MNS did not put up a candidate against Aaditya, who won with a massive margin against the undivided NCP’s candidate.