The ruling Mahayuti in Maharashtra, battling disagreements and recovering from an acrimonious campaign for the local body polls, has been dealt its most devastating blow yet.
Revived in 2022 after Eknath Shinde split the Shiv Sena, toppling the Uddhav Thackeray government, and took oath as chief minister, the coalition took its current form when Ajit Pawar followed in Shinde’s footsteps, divided uncle Sharad Pawar’s NCP, and joined the Maharashtra government a year later.
The arrangement worked smoothly with Shinde as chief minister and the BJP’s Devendra Fadnavis and Pawar as his deputies until 2024, when a mega victory in the Assembly polls posed the first major challenge for the Mahayuti. The BJP emerged as the single largest party by a massive margin, winning 132 of the state’s 288 seats, just 13 shy of a majority on its own.
The Shinde Sena notched up 57 seats and Ajit Pawar’s NCP 41, while the Uddhav Thackeray faction of the Sena could win only 20 seats, the highest among the opposition grouping. Shinde, arguing that the victory was a result of his governance and the schemes introduced under him, made a pitch to retain the chief minister’s post.
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