Lack of pan-Maharashtra narrative, personal vendetta led to MVA’s crushing defeat

The humiliating decision has besides raised the question implicit the beingness of the MVA successful the authorities arsenic Maharashtra astatine contiguous stands virtually without an Opposition successful the legislative house.

Among the Opposition, the worst decision is of Congress arsenic the enactment has seen its lowest tally ever since the enactment of Maharashtra arsenic galore of its elder arsenic good arsenic second-rank leaders faced decision successful their respective strongholds.

The Congress failed to devise a communicative antithetic from what it presented during the Lok Sabha elections. Congress person and Leader of Opposition successful the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, relied connected the aged communicative of the BJP trying to alteration the Constitution and conducting caste census successful his speeches. The 5 guarantees presented by the MVA were mostly successful reply to the promises made by the ruling Mahayuti, specified arsenic expanding the nonstop currency payment to women beneficiaries to Rs 3,000 from Rs 1,500 — the magnitude that was being doled retired by the erstwhile ruling authorities nether the Ladki Bahin Yojana.

The decentralisation of power, which worked for the Congress during the Lok Sabha polls, seems to person wholly boomeranged successful the assembly polls. Senior leaders specified arsenic Balasaheb Thorat and erstwhile Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan mislaid successful their respective strongholds portion the promising second-rank enactment of Satej Patil from Kolhapur, Amit Deshmukh from Latur, Sunil Kedar from Nagpur and Yashomati Thakur from Amravati failed to triumph successful their constituencies, reducing the party’s tally to 15 —  the lowest since the state’s formation.

Maharashtra Congress main Nana Patole’s unnecessary duels with Shiv Sena UBT, nonaccomplishment to instrumentality the enactment leaders on with him and nationalist boasting aft the Lok Sabha canvass triumph did not spell down excessively good with voters arsenic good arsenic enactment workers.

Sharad Pawar’s NCP

While Sharad Pawar led an awesome run passim the state, the deficiency of second-rank enactment successful the enactment harmed the prospects of NCP(SP). The tag of being a Maratha-dominated enactment seems to person wounded the party’s prospects arsenic it failed to gully votes from each communities.

Three months ago, the seasoned person had fixed a telephone to alteration the contiguous government. However, the MVA failed to proceed with the momentum towards the purpose with corporate effort.

While Sharad Pawar led the NCP(SP) run successful the state, helium failed to get the capable enactment connected crushed from the second-rank enactment to gully votes. The enactment besides failed to hitch the tag of Maratha enactment and successful the aftermath of the agitation by activistic Manoj Jarange-Patil seeking OBC presumption for Marathas, the non-Marathas consolidated against the party.

With legislative spot reduced, the absorption MVA is improbable to marque an content wrong the location and is present near with nary enactment but to absorption connected re-organising itself connected ground. Both the Congress and NCP-SP volition person to absorption connected their respective authorities leaderships to fortify the party.

Shiv Sena UBT

While Uddhav Thackeray and his lad Aaditya, who won from Worli, campaigned extensively crossed the state, targeting Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena and the BJP by accusing them of indulging successful corruption and giving preferential attraction to respective businessmen including industrialist Gautam Adani, it failed to ringing a doorbell with the voters.

The party’s strategy, on with the MVA, seemed to person failed to antagonistic the communicative acceptable by the ruling broadside successful which they claimed that the MVA is dividing castes and religions to summation votes and Uddhav has abandoned Hindutva and had taken to appeasement authorities to get the votes of the minorities.

The Sena UBT failed to antagonistic the “vote jihad” communicative acceptable by the BJP and Shinde-led Sena and could not adjacent proceed with the momentum and sympathy question the enactment had during the Lok Sabha polls.

The Shiv Sena, which was weakened aft the BJP caused a rift successful the enactment done its Operation Lotus that was driven by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde successful June 2022, could not retrieve adjacent aft 2 years and failed to regain mislaid ground.

Since the Sena UBT had mislaid 40 MLAs and 15 MPs and astir of the archetypal and second-rung leaders, the enactment did not person immoderate beardown faces to tract them successful the polls and had to springiness tickets to either caller faces who were lightweights arsenic compared to the opponents oregon the turncoats, who were considered spent force.

During the Lok Sabha polls, the Sena UBT’s tally came down contempt its different confederation partners performing better. The Sena UBT seems to person not improvised its strategy for the assembly polls and did not person beardown candidates to tract successful the polls.

The Uddhav Thackeray-led Sena has mislaid its crushed not lone successful the state’s authorities but besides successful the Opposition bloc. However, with the enactment managing to execute amended successful Mumbai wherever it bagged 10 of the 20 seats it won crossed Maharashtra, the enactment has an accidental to execute amended during the civic assemblage polls, including successful the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, to regain its mislaid crushed and physique its basal again.