By Roshan Kishore and Abhishek Jha
With the resignation of Uddhav Thackeray from the chief minister’s post in Maharashtra, the Shiv Sena’s two-and-a-half-year long tryst with power came to an end. While it was being widely expected that the Eknath Shinde faction will support the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Devendra Fadnavis as the next CM candidate, Fadnavis himself announced on Thursday that Shinde would be the next chief minister of the state. Then, hours later, BJP’S national president JP Nadda said Fadnavis would be the deputy CM.
What does this mean for the future of the Shiv
Sena? Is Shinde’s rebellion to be seen as the perfect palace coup which has given the rebel Sena camp the bargaining power to get the BJP to concede the CM’S post to the Sena? Or is it just a cosmetic concession where the BJP has allowed the Shinde camp a face saver and it is the latter which will control real power in the state? What is going to be the fate of Uddhav Thackeray’s faction of the Sena?
It is useful to look at the history and evolution of the Shiv Sena to answer this question. Here are four charts which explain this in detail.
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