If politics makes for strange bedfellows, Sunil Dutt land Bal Thackeray were caught in flagrente several times during Sanjay Dutt's 15-month imprisonment, And, what's mote, neither seemed to mind. No wonder rumours are Boating around, Close associates say it was "just gratitude" that spurred the Dutts to follow up their visit to the family deity at the Siddhivinayak temple with one to Mumbai's presiding deity. But some feel Sunil Dutt Is so disillusioned by his partymen's refusal to stand by him that he is willing to lump the fence. Which would be quite a leap for a man whose secular credentials are legendary.