With the BJP-Shiv Sena tussle intensifying further, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has decided to join forces with his Telangana counterpart K Chandrashekar Rao (KCR) and other like-minded parties to fight the BJP-led central government. Thackeray spoke with Rao over the phone, and invited him to Mumbai for discussing their common agenda, on February 20.

Rao, who has remained passive against the BJP until recently, has suddenly swung into action making allegations against the Narendra Modi-led government. He has said the non-BJP states should insulate themselves from the Centre’s policies that harm the country’s federal structure.