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Ahead of Assembly elections scheduled for later this year, the Maharashtra government of the Shiv Sena-BJP-NCP combine has become the latest to announce a scheme for monetary assistance to women in the state every month.
Reacting to an article in RSS-affiliated weekly “Vivek”, which blamed the poor performance of Maharashtra BJP in Lok Sabha elections on the alliance with the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), the Ajit Pawar-led party on Wednesday said that no post-poll data supports this claim and that “process of vote transfer” takes time.
Could it be as straightforward as the overconfidence of their supporters? As the BJP and their allies continue with their post-mortem of the Lok Sabha elections, Maharashtra Chief Minister and Shiv Sena president Eknath Shinde has pointed to that, underscoring the need for a “more strategic approach” as the Assembly elections approach.
With the year-end state Assembly elections and the losses in the recent Lok Sabha polls weighing on its mind, the Mahayuti government led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde Friday presented a Budget where politics dominated over economics.
With the Maharashtra Assembly elections slated for October this year and weeks after it saw its Lok Sabha poll tally in the state dip to 9 seats from 23 in the 2019 polls, the BJP has come up with a two-pronged strategy to reclaim its dominant position in the state.
Maharashtra civil supplies minister and senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Chhagan Bhujbal is known in state political circles as a firebrand who often speaks his mind. Bhujbal seems to be again keeping his party and the Mahayuti coalition guessing, this time over the Maratha quota issue as well as the Rajya Sabha nomination for party chief Ajit Pawar’s wife Suntera.
The growing tension in the Maharashtra BJP against its alliance partners – the Shiv Sena, led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, and the NCP, led by Deputy CM Ajit Pawar – after the debacle in the recent Lok Sabha polls has raised questions on the projected unity of the ruling Mahayuti.
At a time when the ruling Mahayuti alliance in Maharashtra is in the initial stages of assessing its below-par performance in the Lok Sabha elections, the outcome of the elections to 11 seats of the Maharashtra Legislative Council, the dates for which are expected to be announced soon, may test the loyalty of the MLAs of the ruling coalition as well as the Opposition.