"Whenever the Shiv Sena is in political trouble, it looks for soft targets, " he says.
Raj Thackeray split from Shiv Sena, now run by his cousin, to further his own ambitions.
That fuelled the rise of Shiv Sena, which, with the MNS, wins the urban Marathi-speaking vote.
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"They also discussed further defence exchanges and visits, " India's National Security Adviser Shiv Shankar Menon told reporters.
"The stoppage of work on the temple has affected morale, " says Nalanda school principal Shiv Shankar Lal Nigam.
Yet their Hinduist scheme now looks stunted: the BJP and Shiv Sena have lost successive state-level and general elections.
On the television that evening, a local Shiv Sena leader energetically defended the arming of the city's female population.
In Maharashtra, the BJP and the Shiv Sena have ruled together since 1995.
Shapira used the episode as an opportunity to decry the death of journalism and attack blogs for wielding the shiv.
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But Bombay is also the capital of the only state (Maharashtra) where the hardline Hindu party, the Shiv Sena, shares power.
The knives were given away at an event held in Mumbai on the birthday of Bal Thackeray, Shiv Sena's late leader.
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The match ended in low-key style, with Shiv Chanderpaul (44 not out) and Benn taking two singles off the final over.
Shiv found that his healthy test subjects allowed their prior losses to cloud their judgment, causing them to be excessively risk averse.
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It is also difficult to see any Shiv Sena leader emerging who can invoke the frenzy and reverence that Mr Thackeray commanded.
And there were also runs down the order from Devang Ghandi, who added 59, and former Test star Shiv Sunder Das (55).
Police said the suspects are members of the regional Shiv Sena party.
Hindu fundamentalist politician Bal Thackeray, the founder of the right-wing Shiv Sena party, has died in Mumbai at the age of 86.
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Though the BJP led the national vote in March, the Shiv Sena lost more than half the seats it held in Parliament.
Sanjay Nirupam, a Shiv Sena member of Parliament and editor of the party newspaper, Saamna (Confrontation), leads the campaign against provocative advertisements.
The Shiv Sena continued to operate in the Mumbai region, including neighbouring towns, but had no reach in the rest of the state.
Yet, four years after it won power in the western state of Maharashtra, Shiv Sena, unlike its hero, is crumbling under popular anger.
"It's going to be our generation that adopts most of these, " noted Shiv Gaglani, a Johns Hopkins medical student who helped organize the project.
She is a serious, self-contained woman dressed in saffron and red and frowns at my description of Shiv Sena as a party of violence.
The foundation is now working on setting up the Shiv Nadar University in North India, on a 286 -acre campus near Delhi, where Nadar lives.
After an audience had gathered at a posh Bombay hotel in April, Shiv Sena activists entered the auditorium, occupied the stage and began singing party songs.
India's Shiv Kapur is on five under after he too improved on an slow start to card five birdies coming home and complete an impressive round.
Shiv Sena party president Uddhav Thackeray and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Vinod Tawde said his comments were "a cruel joke on the drought-hit population of the state".
Asian Tour number one Andrew Buckle, Indian star Shiv Kapur and local favourite Zhang Lianwei, the 2003 winner, will also tee it up in the co-sanctioned event.
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