Maharashtra leader Raj Thackeray today met UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi in Delhi, raising expectations of a formal alliance ahead of the assembly election in the state. The two met at Sonia Gandhi's official residence. The leader of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena had come to Delhi to meet Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora, whom he asked to replace Electronic Voting Machines with paper ballots in the coming assembly elections in the state.