A grievance letter posted on X (formerly Twitter) on March 4 has given a peek into the tussle within the ruling Mahayuti alliance, comprising the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena, and Ajit Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), for the 48 Lok Sabha seats in Maharashtra ahead of the general election.
As per the latest developments, the Sena is demanding 22 seats, the NCP has staked claim to at least 10, while the BJP — the ‘big brother’ of the alliance — is intent on fighting at least 30 seats. It seems a circle impossible to square.
The missive from senior BJP leader Harshavardhan Patil to party colleague Devendra Fadnavis alluded to a ‘sinister’ political campaign by NCP workers in Indapur, one of the six Assembly constituencies that make up the Baramati Lok Sabha seat.
