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Uneasy lies the head...

Uddhav Thackeray may settle for plum portfolios, but a demanding Shiv Sena is not Fadnavis's only headache in his second term.

The Shiv Sena might have won seven seats less than it did in 2014, but Uddhav Thackeray isn't complaining. The BJP's tally of 105 seats, 40 short of a simple majority in the 288-member Maharashtra assembly, has put him in a position to pay back the BJP for the raw treatment he received at its hands over the past five years.

The first thing the Sena supremo did after the assembly poll result came in on October

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