On the surface, there seems to be little in common with a garment called the lungi and a sweet known as Rasmalai and yet, both have been referenced together in a sizzling controversy pre-BMC polls.

On Sunday, when the cousins Uddhav and Raj Thackeray came together for a pre-municipal polls rally in Dadar, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) leader Raj Thackeray mocked BJP Tamil Nadu leader K Annamalai as ‘Rasmalai’ in his speech and invoked the slogan of years ago, synonymous with late uncle Bal Thackeray, ‘Hatao Lungi, Bajao Pungi’. Raj Thackeray was responding to Annamalai’s reported references to Mumbai as a global or international city.