Splitting of NCP and Shiv Sena, clan prestige loom large ahead of Phase 3 Lok Sabha polls in Maharashtra
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Splitting of NCP and Shiv Sena, clan prestige loom large ahead of Phase 3 Lok Sabha polls in Maharashtra

The Hindu  

The seismic political shifts to roil Maharashtra’s politics in the form of vertical splits within the Nationalist Congress Party and the Shiv Sena, coupled with clan rivalry and internecine conflicts within the ruling and Opposition alliances loom large over the crucial third phase of the Lok Sabha election in the State. After Ajit Pawar’s adhesion to the ruling alliance in 2023, the BJP finally sees a chance in storming the hitherto impregnable bastion of the Pawar clan, long considered the saffron party’s holy grail in its mission to win 45 of the State’s 48 Lok Sabha seats. In Raigad, Mr. Ajit Pawar’s lieutenant and sitting MP, the NCP’s Sunil Tatkare, faces a tough fight as he squares off with his old rival, former Union Minister and Sena leader Anant Geete, whom he had beaten in the 2019 General Election by a thin margin. Yet, despite Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s carpet bombing of western Maharashtra, harping on the scrapping of Article 370 and raising the bogey of the Congress awarding OBC reservation to Muslims, this progressive region will see a settling of scores on May 7 as many have not taken kindly to the splits engineered by the saffron party within the Shiv Sena and the NCP.

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