Fresh schisms developed within the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) troika after the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT) faction said its ally Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar had reportedly “failed to find a political legatee” to take the NCP forward.
Problems also emerged between the Congress and the Shiv Sena (UBT) after State Congress chief Nana Patole was upset with Mr. Thackeray for inducting Congress general secretary Snehal Jagtap into the latter’s party during Mr. Thackeray’s rally at Mahad in Raigad.
An edit in the Sena (UBT)’s mouthpiece Saamana — whose executive editor is Thackeray camp loyalist MP Sanjay Raut — while saying the NCP president failed to groom a successor who could lead the party after Mr. Pawar, also credited the 82-year-old NCP supremo for his “masterstroke” in queering the BJP’s “game plan” of splitting the NCP with his resignation episode.
