MVA govt on the edge with relation between allies on constant simmer

The Shiv Sena and the NCP suspect that either of them may walk into the waiting arms of the BJP. The Congress feels that the Sena and the NCP may eventually team up and marginalise it

Teen tigada, kaam bigada. As the saying goes, three partners are sure to make the best-laid plans go haywire. This jinx seems to be haunting the three-party Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) regime in Maharashtra with relations between the Shiv Sena, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the Congress on a constant simmer.

On 19 June, which was the Shiv Sena’s foundation day, Chief Minister and Shiv Sena President Uddhav Thackeray launched an uncharacteristic broadside at the Congress, whose state president Nana Patole had threatened to contest the next elections independently. Without naming the Congress, Uddhav said the people would “beat