Launching a no holds barred attack against the BJP and its “alleged surrogates” including his estranged cousin, Chief Minister and Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday said there was a conspiracy to separate Mumbai from Maharashtra. He said that the BJP’s Hindutva was perverted, while the Sena’s was based on development and welfare of the people.

Thackeray, who has stayed away from criticising the BJP’s parent organisation the RSS, took his fight straight to the Nagpur headquarters of the right-wing body questioning its role in the country’s freedom struggle. He was speaking at the party’s rally at a BKC ground on Saturday evening.