An image of Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray greeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi is going viral, especially among the saffron cadre. The aim is to assuage the situation on ground where party workers from both camps are still holding old grudges against each other.

The Sena and BJP have been at loggerheads since 2014 Assembly polls in Maharashtra, launching verbal attacks at each other, leading to a split among party workers. At one point, the oldest political alliance inked on Hindutva agenda in the late 1980s was on the verge of a break-up. But, just ahead of 2019 general polls, the two parties buried their differences and entered a pre-poll alliance.