MUMBAI: Raj Thackeray has declared total war against his cousin Uddhav Thackeray in the coming Lok Sabha elections. Bitter over the Shiv Sena spoiling the BJP’s recent overtures to his MNS , Raj has firmed up a strategy that is aimed chiefly at the Shiv Sena, avoiding a direct contest with BJP candidates in the city and its peripheries, party sources said.“We will chiefly contest seats where the Sena has put up its candidates. The Sena is on our radar,” said an MNS MLA after attending a party conclave at his chief’s Shivaji Park residence on Friday. The list of candidates will be announced at a party meeting in Mumbai on Sunday, the MNS’s sixth anniversary, he said. The party is expected to contest 15-20 Lok Sabha seats in the state.What could escalate tension in the Sena-BJP combine is the BJP seeking the MNS’s support for the upcoming elections to the Maharashtra legislative council. Senior BJP leaders Vinod Tawde and Ashish Shelar held talks with the MNS president in this regard on Friday.According to party sources, MNS MLA Bala Nandgaonkar will take on the Sena’s Arvind Sawant, Congress’s Milind Deora and AAP’s Meera Sanyal in Mumbai South.Aditya Shirodkar will contest from Mumbai South Central against the Sena’s Rahul Shewale and Congress’s sitting MP Eknath Gayakwad. Aditya is the son of Rajan Shirodkar, a close confidant of the MNS chief.