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Hashtag Politics | From ‘Pehle Agniveer’ to ‘Congress Ke Orphan’: How was Maharashtra’s drama

July 1, 2022

As political crisis in Maharashtra expressed last-minute surprise, parties protested BJP and its new Shiv Sena The Allies had a field day on what had happened.

Led by NCP chief Sharad Pawar, whose party was seen as the glue holding together the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance, which strained internal ties enough to split the Shiv Sena.

Pawar shared excerpts from his press conference on Thursday, where he said that both the rebel Shiv Sena leaders took oath as chief ministers, Eknath ShindeAnd BJP hopes that Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has no clue about his fate.

“Eknath Shinde has been given the responsibility of the post of Chief Minister of the state, maybe he has no idea about it. After giving orders in the process of BJP, it will have to be strictly followed. The one who was the Chief Minister earlier had to take oath as the Deputy Chief Minister… But once the order comes and any opportunity of power is given, it has to be accepted. He acknowledged Shinde’s achievement in removing “38 (Shiv Sena) MLAs”, saying “it was not a simple matter”.

NCP spokesperson and Goa leader Clyde Crasto said that Fadnavis not becoming CM shows that “he is not sure of the support of all 40 dissident Shiv Sena MLAs along with Shinde”, adding: “If something goes wrong Eknath Shinde ji becomes a fall guy. And he is not. This is his (Fadnavis’s) masterstroke.”

While Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray, who resigned as CM on Wednesday, congratulated the new government, senior party leader Sanjay Raut issued a statement to the press saying: “Shiv Sena is not born for power, power is Shiv Sena. born for. This has always been the mantra of Balasaheb Thackeray. We will work and once again come to power on our own.

Bihar official account Rashtriya Janata Dal He joined by tweeting: “Heartiest congratulations to Devendra Fernandes (Fadnavis) on becoming the first Agniveer of the country.” The reference was to the new short-term military recruitment scheme of the defense forces, in which 75 per cent of the force is to be discharged after a period of four years.

National Conference leader Omar Abdullah referred to internal churning within Shiv Sena and how BJP stole a march. Anticipating that “Uddhav was probably relying on a BJP CM to target Shinde”, he said that with Shinde becoming the CM “it had become very difficult for Thackeray to rebuild his Shiv Sena”.

In an official press release, Congress attacked the BJP, citing examples of what happened in Karnataka in 2019, Manipur in 2017, Uttarakhand in 2016, Madhya Pradesh in 2020 and Maharashtra in 2019, Where alliances were forged and legislators changed their allegiance.

Senior Congress leader and former Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh, while issuing an official statement on behalf of the Congress, said: “What happened in Maharashtra is shameful for a democracy like India. Under the leadership of Modi-Shah, BJP wants to get power at any cost. They want that either the power should remain with them or the door of the chair should be in their hands.

senior congress leader Shashi Tharoor Poet and satirist Sharad Joshi tweeted in Hindi: “There are three types of chief ministers: the elected chief minister, the planted chief minister and the third one, which becomes a fight between the two!”

BJP CM in neighboring Madhya Pradesh Shivraj Singh Chauhan He used what had happened in Maharashtra to take a dig at Congress’ arch rival Kamal Nath, who was sent by his party to deal with the MVA crisis.

Talking to reporters Thursday night, Chouhan said in reference to Nath, “Hum to doobe hain sanam, tumko bhi le doobenge. Aur wo hi kiya, bichare Uddhav bhi chale gaye (We are already sunk darling, but we’ll take you with us. And it so happened that poor fellow Uddhav also went away).”

Taking a jibe at the Congress, Chouhan said, “The one who could not save his government was sent to save Maharashtra… There is only one ‘nath’ (guru), all others are ‘nath’ (orphans). Rest of the Congressmen are orphans. Huh.”