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They have also played a very important and decisive role in shaping the politics of the city. Also Read | Mumbai’s growing Hindi heartlandIn the 19th and early 20 century, the population of Mumbai mainly consisted of those born outside. Before the Shiv Sena gained ground in the city, native politicians from Maharashtra constituted only 35 per cent of the total elected representatives in the city. Shiv Sena’s projection of everyone other than native Marathi speakers as outsiders paid electoral dividends and helped change the political landscape of the city as well. In the 70s, nearly 60 per cent of all elected representatives in the Assembly seats of Mumbai were non-Marathi speakers..