MUMBAI: As the campaigning for the high-stakes elections to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) concludes on Tuesday evening, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has unleashed a blistering counter-offensive against the recently reunited Thackeray brothers under the "Marathi Manus" and "Save Mumbai" planks.
The BJP’s response has been primarily led by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Union Minister Piyush Goyal, focused on dismissiveness, development-centric rhetoric, and questioning the credibility of the Thackeray alliance.
Responding to allegations of a "conspiracy to break Mumbai", Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and senior BJP leaders have dismissed the Thackeray narrative as a "desperate act of political survival".