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The Maharashtrian Candidate

Defection season strikes, but the saffron party can't afford to slip in the bypolls.

Devendra Fadnavis was shocked when on May 2 he realised that the Shiv Sena had poached Shrinivas Vanga, son of the late BJP MP Chintaman Vanga whose demise had necessitated the May 28 bypoll in Palghar, near Mumbai. "The Shiv Sena

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