: Once bitten in the Ajit Pawar snafu, now BJP got its coup right #IndiaNEWS #National,Politics By Quaid NajmiMumbai, July 16 (IANS) In one of the most brazen political coups in recent years, the 31-month-old

Once bitten in the Ajit Pawar snafu, now BJP got its coup right #IndiaNEWS #National ,Politics
By Quaid NajmiMumbai, July 16 (IANS) In one of the most brazen political coups in recent years, the 31-month-old unique experimental alliance of the Shiv Sena-Nationalist Congress Party-Congress Maha Vikas Aghadi crashed in 10 days flat, peaking a sneaky but defiant drama by rebels, spanning 3 states.
A group of 40 Shiv Sena MLAs the number dubiously coinciding with a famous tale in the glorious Arabian Nights decided to go ‘single and mingle with ‘external forces and the then Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray fell like a hapless ‘Humpty Dumpty.
Almost like a puzzled Ali Baba, Thackeray, who was once greeted with ‘Assalamo Alaikum by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, rushed to bolt the stable…, but it was already too late as his trusted horses had bolted across the states borders.
The 40 MLAs zipped off in deluxe cars, air-dashed in chartered planes and were treated to ‘super-secure lavish sojourns in five-star hotels in Gujarat, Assam and Goa before their ‘ghar-wapsi to Maharashtra after a fortnight.
The manner in which many of the lawmakers pulled off their nocturnal vanishing trick without arousing suspicions was both hackneyed and hilarious slinking off with innocuous excuses of ‘tummy upset, ‘headache, ‘bodypains, etc, and one plucky MLA even ‘re-escaped to Mumbai on a plea for a pee…!
In Mumbai, the Sena went into a spin and mounted a belated damage control exercise as almost its entire legislative citadel and the MVA tumbled, Thackeray quit as CM, in 24 hours a new government propped up by the Bharatiya Janata Party was formed with Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis.
The entire rebellion, as it turned out later, bloomed with the blessings of the BJP without waving its usual ‘Operation Lotus flag, and it remained in denial mode till the two-member regime was sworn-in.
With the embarrassing failure of a similar dawn operation that failed to germinate in late November 2019, when Fadnavis took oath as CM and the NCPs Ajit Pawar as Deputy CM, but falling in barely 80 hours probably fresh in the mind, in June 2022, the BJP took pains to maintain ‘a safe distance up to the end after the MVA was dumped into the bin, before sounding the ‘Horn, OK Please triumphantly.
Both sides headed by Shinde and Fadnavis even kept their proposed power-sharing formula a top secret and it was revealed only a few hours before the oath taking ceremony when the BJP shouted, ‘Open Sesame before a boggled media.
And the doors of power were opened for Shinde as the new surprise CM, and seconds prior to the swearing-in, Fadnavis was squeezed in at the last second as the ‘second-in-chief to the CM, shocking the national and state polity.

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