Since June, there are two Shiv Senas, each one trying to establish that they are the original one. Eknath Shinde, a long time Sena member, walked out with a large number of MLAs and formed the government along with the BJP. He is insisting that he is now the ‘official’ Sena and not the one led by Uddhav Thackeray.Kumar Ketkar, veteran journalist and now a Congress Rajya Sabha MP, has been a close follower of the Shiv Sena since it was founded in 1966. “Shinde has the support of the MLAs, Uddhav Thackeray has the backing of the shakhas (branches) and the members,” he tells Sidharth Bhatia in this podcast discussion.He says Hindutva was never a Shiv Sena cause but it saw an electoral opportunity in it in the 1980s which helped it form an alliance with the BJP. “Relations between the two have never been comfortable,” Ketkar says. He predicts that Uddhav Thackeray will hold on to his organisation but he has to rebuild it.