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By reaching an agreement with Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange-Patil, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has not only succeeded in ending an agitation with the potential of paralysing Mumbai and causing his government problems but has also raised his stature among the dominant community.
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.
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.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who left for Italy Thursday to attend G7 Summit, is set to participate in the outreach session at the Summit on Friday.
Amid some discordant notes among BJP allies over allocations in the Union Council of Ministers, the Shiv Sena on Monday said its support for the Narendra Modi-led government was unconditional and there was no bargaining happening for any Cabinet post or portfolio.
As Narendra Modi is set to take oath as prime minister for a third consecutive term along with a few other MPs on Sunday, Nitin Gadkari, Piyush Goyal, Prataprao Jadhav, Ramdas Athawale and Raksha Khadse—all from Maharashtra—are likely to be inducted into his cabinet.
The TDP and JD(U), two parties key to the third successive stint of the NDA at the Centre, have decided to press for the post of the Speaker of the Lok Sabha.
“Mumbai amchi, nahi konachya bapachi. (Mumbai belongs to us, not to anybody’s father).”