In a two-part interview with party mouthpiece Saamna, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray offered a creamy topping to a series of lengthy talks by three senior leaders of Maharashtra that covered the recent political history. Thackeray's predecessor and opposition leader Devendra Fadnavis started it late June. Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) boss Sharad Pawar followed next month and Thackeray completed the series last weekend. The open–ended talks, especially by Fadnavis and Pawar, made some revelations against each other, but Thackeray played patiently delivering caution to both the opposition and warring Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) partners.

While Fadnavis and Pawar talked about how their respective parties were in talks for forming the government even before the MVA came into being last year, Uddhav Thackeray said he was firm in the saddle, driving from the front with the NCP-Congress seated in the back. The CM challenged the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to trigger the collapse of his government while he was talking to Saamna editor and Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut, the common interviewer between him and Pawar. And in the same breath, Thackeray said the future of his government did not depend on the opposition. If it is so, then, do the factors within MVA endanger the Thackeray government?