Maharashtra politics
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) seems to have developed unparalleled expertise in breaking and making State governments, according to its desires. In this light, the political events unfolding in Maharashtra are not totally unexpected; the Shiv Sena leadership ought to have sniffed out these moves at the very nascent stages (Page 1, “Uddhav Thackeray fights to keep control over Shiv Sena”, June 23). But what is puzzling is why the BJP has not been able to complete the ‘defection engineering’ job in Gujarat. That rain-hit Assam is also a part of the political game is startling. One hopes that the developments serve as a wake-up call to the Congress and NCP to safeguard their ‘vulnerable’ legislators.
A. Venkatasubramanian,
