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On Sunday, just months after Shiv Sena defected to bring down Maha Vikas Agadi’s ministry in Mumbai, The Bharatiya Janata Party strengthened its government by getting rid of a large section of the National Congress Party. It may not be a coincidence that four of the nine NCP MLAs who are sworn in as On Sunday, government ministers face an investigation Either by the Enforcement Department or the Anti-Corruption Office. In the very recent past, the BJP has alleged that some of its MLAs, prominent among them Ajit Pawar, who has now been sworn in as Deputy Prime Minister, They are symbols of corrupt and family politics. The next chapter in this satirical drama has been prophesied: Now that they are in the BJP, these leaders will be magically cleansed of the taint of corruption. This, after all, is what happened with many politicians from non-BJP parties in West Bengal, Assam and other states having their cases postponed after joining the BJP. The unseemly events in Mumbai underscore a grim pattern – the BJP is using unfair means to improve its numbers in states where it has no clear mandate, including by selectively deploying central agencies to target its political opponents. In the past few years, the BJP has aptly called out accusations of engineering defections and defections to form governments in states including Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka and Goa, after failing to win elections.
In Maharashtra, the BJP has been looking for ways to tighten its grip since the 2019 elections, in which it did not win the state on its own. At first, the party appeared to be outsmarted by NCP President Sharad Pawar, who forged an unlikely alliance – Maha Vikas Agadi – with BJP’s long-term ally, Shiv Sena, and Congress, by showcasing Shiv Sena leader Uddhav Thackeray appointed the Prime Minister’s office. The BJP’s attempt to force a split in the National Congress Party by rigging Ajit Pawar ended in embarrassment. However, the party succeeded in splitting the Sena and forming a government with the leader of the Sena rebels, Eknath Shinde, as prime minister. Defections from the NCP now may strengthen the hold of the Shinde-BJP government, if the Ajit Pawar-led faction passes the test of the anti-defection law. Pawar said the NCP would not contest the defections legally, but would seek validation in the People’s Court. The Maharashtrian gang is likely to last until at least the general elections. The coming days will test the strength of a group of political actors including CM Shinde and his two deputies, Ajit Pawar, Fadnavis and Udhav Thackeray. Also in the test will be the tactical and tactical skills of Sharad Pawar, the former guru in splitting and merging parties and forming alliances.
the events in Maharashtra It could also be a setback for the opposition, which has been trying to build a united front against the BJP before 2024. Sharad Pawar, the main driver of the unity effort, is waning, for now, as his close colleagues shift sides. As Maharashtra refutes the BJP’s righteous rhetoric on corruption, and raises questions about its willingness to bend the rules of the game, it also punches a hole in the viability of the opposition at the front.
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