BJP looking for openings to keep Uddhav Thackeray on tenterhooks

The BJP is looking for openings to strengthen opposition to the MVA government

On a constant lookout for controversies and issues to frustrate Maharashtra’s Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) awaits the Assembly Speaker’s election (in case circumstances necessitate one) to “expose” the “cracks” in the coalition and convert the occasion into a trial of strength for Chief minister and Shiv Sena President Uddhav Thackeray. The Speaker’s post, held by Congressman Nana Patole, was vacated after he was appointed the Maharashtra party president.
 

Although on paper, the MVA outnumbers the BJP—it has 169 members in the 288-member legislature, while the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) has 114—the Sena and