Among other things, Balasaheb’s derisive references to the BJP as “Kamalabai” conveyed to Sena workers a sense of braggadocio that sometimes irritated Mahajan and co. Murli Manohar Joshi told Business Standard privately once that he had taken great care to never share a platform with Thackeray because of the fundamentally anti-constitutional stance of the leader. “My party may be in alliance with them. But I will never endorse this kind of politics,” he had said. Cigars could disarm Thackeray. But selling the deal to his own p