Bala Saheb's Shiv Sena was very different from Uddhav Thackeray's Shiv Sena! Now not only Hindus but also votes of Muslims are needed to form the government. 

During the Lok Sabha elections in May, Uddhav Thackeray had reached a settlement named Cheeta Camp near Chembur in Mumbai. There is a sizeable population of Muslims in this area and Uddhav had given a speech in Hindi instead of Marathi. The crowd and Uddhav say, "I have probably come in front of you for the first time because there was a wall between us. We used to fight with each other. I ask you a question, did I leave Hindutva? Is there any difference between my Hindutva and BJP's Hindutva? I also say Jai Shri Ram, but my Hindutva is Ram in the heart and Hindutva that helps every hand. Our Hindutva is the Hindutva that burns the hearth, not the one that burns the house." During the Lok Sabha elections, Uddhav Thackeray had tried to tell the Muslim voters at Shiv Sena Bhawan that he wanted to save the Constitution. Are. In February this year, the Muslim community in Raigarh district had gifted a Quran written in Marathi to Uddhav Thackeray. Then he had said, "I was given the Quran in Marathi. This is our Hindutva. Therefore no one should doubt our Hindutva." These efforts of Uddhav Thackeray to reach out to Muslim voters are completely different from the politics of his father Bal Thackeray. What is the reason for this and are these efforts successful?  Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut had written in Saamana, “As long as Muslims continue to be used as vote banks, they have no future. This is why Bal Thackeray had demanded that the voting rights of Muslims be taken away. The day the voting rights of Muslims are taken away, the mask of those claiming to be 'secular' will be exposed."