The battle between the ruling ‘Maha Vikas Aghadi’ coalition of the Shiv Sena, the Nationalist Congress Party and the Congress and the Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) following the Enforcement Directorate’s arrest of Maharashtra Minister and senior NCP leader Nawab Malik was joined in earnest, with MVA leaders and the BJP activists staging protests and counter-protests on February 24.
While almost all top NCP leaders and several Congress Ministers gathered at the Mahatma Gandhi statue near the Mantralaya in Mumbai, the MVA protest against the BJP-led Centre’s misuse of probe agencies was marked by the conspicuous absence of the Shiv Sena leaders.
While senior Sena leader and State Industries Minister Subhash Desai arrived late at the protest venue, most of the top party brass were not present.
