How MVA lost the plot in the Maharashtra assembly polls
Hindustan Times|December 03, 2024
Though the Maharashtra elections were widely expected to be closely contested, they turned out to be far from that. The reasons behind the thumping victory of the Mahayuti – the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Shiv Sena, and the Nationalist Congress Party's (NCP) alliance – have been widely discussed.
Sanjay Patil
How MVA lost the plot in the Maharashtra assembly polls

But we also need to examine the possible reasons for the failure of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) that comprised the Congress, the NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar), and Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray).

Traditionally, Maharashtra has been seen as a progressive, assimilative state, with Hindutva politics having limited appeal. However, in the run-up to the assembly polls, the BJP and the Shinde-led Shiv Sena strategically appealed to Hindus to unite, to deflect caste-and class-based attempts at social engineering that are usual in state polls. The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) ran an aggressive campaign online and offline to unify Hindus in favour of the Mahayuti.

The Shinde-led Shiv Sena vernacularised the Hindutva narrative by invoking Maratha ruler Shivaji and the legacy of Balasaheb Thackeray (the "Hindu hriday samrat"), alleging that the Shiv Sena (UBT) had forgotten its Hindutva roots.

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