Maharashtra - the Assembly elections that matter the most

Maharashtra elections have wider ramiiications A win Or a loss, either way, will unleash new energies

- ASHUTOSH

he Maharashtra Assembly elections have suddenly acquired the halo of a make or break election for the all the political formations in the state and outside as well. Maharashtra has the most number of Lok Sabha seats after Uttar Pradesh. During the Lok Sabha elections it helped in breaking the BJ P's back, and along with UP it broke the myth that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was invincible. The Assembly elections will be a confirmative test of the 2024 results, to ascertain if it was a fluke or a statement of fact that Modi magic is a matter of history.

Maharashtra is one state where, despite its phenomenon growth nationally, the BJP has never won enough trust of the people so as to manage to form the government on its own, without the support of any other party. with the rise of Modi in Delhi, BJP formed the government in Maharashtra with the help of the Shiv Sena and remained together till 2019 when they split. Shiv Sena leaders managed to stitch a rainbow coalition with Sharad Pawar's NCP and the Congress. This was a big setback for the BJP, which in vengeance broke the Shiv Sena into two. This was followed by a split in the NCP too. In these elections, six political parties are fighting to prove their relevance, divided into two camps. The Maha Vikas Aghadi has to prove that Shiv Sena led by Uddhav Thackeray and NCP led by Sharad Pawar were betrayed by their own people and a positive verdict will help them earn back the tag of the original party of which they had been robbed.