India, April 30 -- Uddhav Thackeray, the Shiv Sena-UBT chief, always sported the veneer of a reluctant politician. His public persona was in sharp contrast to his father and founder of the Sena, Bal Thackeray, who did not care for the etiquette of parliamentary politics but weaponised rhetoric to polarise people. The senior Thackeray refused to contest elections and seek public office; instead, he ran the party and government through his nominees. Those were different times. When the terms of engagement between the BJP and the Sena changed, Uddhav offered himself as the face of an ideologically incoherent alliance that included the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party and sought public office. The Maha Vikas Aghadi experiment did s...