The battle for the Lok Sabha in Maharashtra, considered the most hard-fought in these polls, is being seen only as the percussor to the all-out war of the Assembly elections, to be held in less than six months after the General Elections.
The horizon being gazed at by political parties in Maharashtra is the more local war for the State, which began after the last Assembly polls in 2019, when the then-united Shiv Sena walked out of the Mahayuthi or NDA in the State and formed the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government with the unlikely allies — the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP).
That unlikely combination of allies in the MVA redrew the political geography of the State most dramatically, upending support bases and creating grudge matches that are yet to reach their conclusion.
