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rewrite this content and keep HTML tags The direct enlightenment experiment soon failed. The alliance between Shiv Sena’s “Prabodhankar Shakti” and Prakash Ambedkar’s Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi’s “Bhim Shakti” could not be formed. Instead of riding the wave of Ambedkar-Prabodhankar nostalgia, Uddhav Thackeray chose the pragmatic option of going with the big parties of Congress and NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar). The alliance broke just before the assembly elections. Anyway, the rise of Enlightenment sentiment in Maharashtra was not parallel to the rise of Ambedkarite sentiment.At this historical juncture, Uddhav Thackeray stands as the most important symbol of the Enlightenment tradition in Maharashtra,…

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