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Unlike states like Goa and Haryana, recent Maharashtra politics has not seen defections, backstabbing and political U-turns on a mass scale. Certainly, politicians have changed parties ahead of elections and the run up to the 2019 Assembly elections took the cake, prompting Home Minister Amit Shah to remark with ill-concealed glee that barring Sharad Pawar and Prithviraj Chavan, every other politician of any hue was knocking at the door to join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
However, elections are a bit like the young lady of Niger who smiled as she rode on a tiger — and when they returned, the
