Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut has warned ally BJP that it has the "remote control of power" in Maharashtra, despite having secured far fewer seats in the Assembly elections, compared both to the BJP and its own haul in 2014. The term "remote control of power" is a carefully-chosen throwback to the era of party founder Bal Thackeray, when it was regularly used to explain the chain of command in the first Sena-BJP government that was in power from 1995 to 1999.