The tension between Raj Bhavan and the Chief Minister’s Office has been palpable since the Maha Vikas Aghadi government came into being. The two offices have clashed over many issues, but the latest, in which both Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari and CM Uddhav Thackeray talk politics in letter and spirit has taken their battle to the next level.

Governor’s poser

On Monday, seeking answers from the CM over delay in reopening religious places in the unlocking from June, Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari wrote to him asking, "I wonder if you’re receiving any divine premonition to keep postponing re-opening or you’ve suddenly turned ‘secular’ yourselves, the term you hated?"