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The deteriorating health of Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray has prompted the Raj Thackeray-led Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) cadres to seek divine intervention.
Since the Shiv Sena has been the parent organisation for most of the MNS leaders and workers, the senior Thackeray's failing health has them worried.
"Around fifty MNS party men paid obeisance at prominent pilgrimage centres like Pandharpur, Tuljapur and Akkalkot for the good health of Balasaheb," an MNS legislator said.
The failing health of the Sena patriarch was highlighted Bal Thackeray failed to attend the conventional Dussehra rally of the party last month. In a video message he appealed to party workers to "look after Uddhav and Aditya (Bal Thackeray's grandson) as he was not keeping well.
Raj, accompanied by wife Sharmila, had recently visited Thackeray's residence 'Matoshree' in suburban Mumbai to inquire about his uncle's health.
According to sources in MNS, "a party MLA also performed a special ritual at Tuljapur along with his family members and partymen for the good health of Balasaheb".
Raj had also rushed to a suburban hospital last month to be at the bedside of his estranged cousin Uddhav who underwent angioplasty in July and drove him to 'Matoshree', fuelling speculations of a thaw between the estranged cousins.
Since the Shiv Sena has been the parent organisation for most of the MNS leaders and workers, the senior Thackeray's failing health has them worried.
"Around fifty MNS party men paid obeisance at prominent pilgrimage centres like Pandharpur, Tuljapur and Akkalkot for the good health of Balasaheb," an MNS legislator said.
The failing health of the Sena patriarch was highlighted Bal Thackeray failed to attend the conventional Dussehra rally of the party last month. In a video message he appealed to party workers to "look after Uddhav and Aditya (Bal Thackeray's grandson) as he was not keeping well.
Raj, accompanied by wife Sharmila, had recently visited Thackeray's residence 'Matoshree' in suburban Mumbai to inquire about his uncle's health.
According to sources in MNS, "a party MLA also performed a special ritual at Tuljapur along with his family members and partymen for the good health of Balasaheb".
Raj had also rushed to a suburban hospital last month to be at the bedside of his estranged cousin Uddhav who underwent angioplasty in July and drove him to 'Matoshree', fuelling speculations of a thaw between the estranged cousins.
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