It was an India 2014 redux in Maharashtra 2022. The face-off within the Shiv Sena between family scions Uddhav and Aaditya Thackeray versus rebel Eknath Shinde and his followers was the ‘naamdaar’ vs ‘kaamdaar’ narrative once again.
In 2014, PM candidate Narendra Modi was positioned as both Hindutva hero and ‘chaiwalla’s son’ against privileged dynast Rahul Gandhi.
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