Living its tagline ‘Sarkar aplya daari (the government at your doorstep), the Eknath Shinde-led Maharashtra government walked into the Shivaji Park residence of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) President Raj Thackeray on Friday to announce jointly the measures to be taken to correct the irregularities in road toll collection that the MNS had been protesting for over a decade.

Raj had done it before, but not this way. CMs, senior leaders and bureaucrats have visited him, on his invitation or otherwise. As always, Raj prevailed on Friday in his fiefdom. He did most of the talking as Minister of Public Works (Public Undertaking) Dada Bhuse (Shinde Sena) played second fiddle and conceded to some impromptu suggestions Raj made during the press conference. Asked about the mantri and senior bureaucrats coming down to visit him, a smiling Raj reproduced the tagline ‘Sarkar aplya daari’.