CARTOONS! The other side of firebrand Raj Thackeray

Apart from their now-hot, now-cold uncle-nephew relationship, Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray and Maharastra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray have something in common – both are exceptional cartoonists.

While the senior Thackeray's cartooning skills were inspired by the likes of Walt Disney and Sir David Lowe, Raj started cartooning for Marmik, a cartoon weekly started by his uncle. But as things would have it, it did not turn out to be his chosen career.

Rediff.com brings you some of Raj Thackeray's cartoons drawn over the years

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Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati

Congress President Sonia Gandhi

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Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad Yadav

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Rabri Devi Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad Yadav's wife. She also served three terms as Bihar Chief Minister --- between 1997 and 2005.

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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalitha

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Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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Union Agriculture minister and Nationalist Congress Party President Sharad Pawar

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Bharatiya Janata Party leader Gopinath Munde

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Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Manohar Joshi

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Former Defence minister and key Janata Dal member George Fernandes

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Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu

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Trinamool Congress chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.

This cartoon was drawn after her party defeated the world's longest-serving democratically elected Comminust government, the Communist Party of India-Marxist, bringing  an end to the 34 years of Left Front rule in the state.

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This cartoon depics the Shiv Sena-BJP alliance. Seen in it are Republican Party of India chief Ramdas Athavle (far left), Maharashtra BJP chief Sudhir Mungantiwar and Shiv Sena executive president and Raj's cousin Uddhav Thackeray.

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Bharatiya Janata Party leader Lal Krishna Advani

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Former President of India and Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology Thiruvananthapuram's first Chancellor Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Kalam

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Samajwadi Supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav

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Mahatma Gandhi

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Former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi

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Adolf Hitler, founder and leader of the Nazi Party