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POST THE Lok Sabha election setback, the BJP is set to give Pankaja Munde what she has long desired – a stake in state politics. Having failed to win a single seat in the Marathwada region, the party is planning to bring the OBC leader to the House via the Legislative Council, followed by a ministerial post, sources said.
The paradox of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections in Maharashtra was that while farm distress ruled the minds of voters, two prominent farm leaders — Raju Shetti and Ravikant Tupkar — failed to click with them. Both Shetti and Tupkar came a distant third in their Hatkanagale and Buldhana constituencies, respectively.
The 10-day hunger strike by Other Backward Class (OBC) activists Laxman Hake and Navnath Waghmare in Jalna district’s Wadigodri village in the Marathwada region, which ended Saturday, was a renewed assertion to aggressively counter the movement for Maratha reservation within the OBC category in Maharashtra.
Several recent moves of Maharashtra minister Chhagan Bhujbal, a senior leader of the Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), have led to talks that his discontent within the ruling Mahayuti alliance is growing.
In the five-phase elections for the 48 Lok Sabha seats in Maharashtra that wrapped up on Monday, with the Mahayuti and Maha Vikas Aghadi coalitions locked in intense battle, five groups which will be a deciding factor are the Marathas, OBCs, Muslims, Dalits and tribals.
WITH two rival Shiv Sena factions caught in a battle for political one-upmanship, and the AIMIM seeking to retain the seat, the Aurangabad Lok Sabha contest is seeing the fault lines crisscrossing Maharashtra – a state that has seen much political upheaval in the past five years – converge in the constituency.
In the BJP’s Beed district office, the visitors are greeted by a large cutout of Prime Minister Narendra Modi as they take the swirling steel staircase leading up to the first floor. Inside the chamber of the party’s district chief Rajendra Maske there, a smiling portrait of Maharashtra BJP stalwart late Gopinath Munde adorns a wall as people breeze in and out of the busy office.
The discourse across the eight Lok Sabha constituencies in Maharashtra that are scheduled to vote in the second phase on April 26 is witnessing a shift, with a shuffle in traditional caste equations, the rise of the vocal rural voter and the dominance of local factors.