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Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s advice to NCP(SP) chief Sharad Pawar and Shiv Sena (UBT) president Uddhav Thackeray to join the BJP-led NDA — by merging their parties, respectively, with the Ajit Pawar-led NCP and Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena — has charged up Maharashtra politics, which is already heated amidst the ongoing Lok Sabha polls.
At Chaitya Bhoomi near Dadar Chowpatty in Mumbai, overlooking the Arabian Sea, there is a continuous stream of visitors in and out of the B R Ambedkar memorial on a bright summer day earlier this week. Holding colourful flowers topped with blue candles, men, women and children kneel before Ambedkar’s bust with folded hands, each lighting a candle as a mark of respect to the architect of the Indian Constitution.
Every morning, Sonali Vinayak Gavit sets out on a rickety tempo for Umbarpada in Gujarat’s Surat district where she works. The interesting aspect of the 25-year-old’s journey is that she is not a resident of Gujarat. Sonali lives in the village of Panbara in the Navapur taluka of Maharashtra’s Nandurbar district.
The BJP’s decision to replace Poonam Mahajan, the sitting MP from Mumbai North Central constituency since 2014, with Jalgaon-based special public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam (71) puts a question mark on the political legacy of former Union minister in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government and her father, the late Pramod Mahajan.
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.
At the entrance to this village in central Maharashtra’s Jalna district, a pandal has been standing now for seven months. In the middle of it is a prominent bronze bust of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj; behind it, a board that says ‘Amaran Uposhan (Fast Unto Death)’ with a date: 29/8/2023.
With five days to go for the start of the five-phase elections in Maharashtra, Mahayuti partners BJP, Shiv Sena, and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) are struggling to arrive at a consensus on nine of the 48 Lok Sabha seats that go to polls on in the third, fourth, and fifth phases and whose nomination dates close on April 19, April 25, and May 3 respectively.