Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray sharpened his attack on the BJP at his party’s Dussehra rally in Mumbai’s Shivaji Park on Thursday. He likened the BJP to an “amoeba”, a single-celled organism that multiplies and adapts at will.

“It spreads as it wants, forms alliances as it wants, and once the work is over, it shifts to another. It causes stomach-ache when it enters the body and disturbs peace when it enters society,” Thackeray said.

The annual rally, a legacy of late Balasaheb Thackeray, has long served as the Sena’s ideological stage – and Uddhav used it to accuse the BJP, RSS and the Eknath Shinde faction of “fake Hindutva” and opportunism.

Employing pointed metaphors, Thackeray said his rivals had “stolen a donkey and dressed it in a tiger’s skin,” but the true Hindutva legac

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