Left in the Lurch | Maharashtra
The state heads for President’s rule as the Congress-NCP weigh the merits of extending support to Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray.
In 2016, when Ajit Pawar proposed that Uddhav Thackeray join hands with the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the Congress to form an alliance and topple the Devendra Fadnavis-led BJP government in Maharashtra, the Shiv Sena chief developed cold feet. Three years later, it is Thackeray who is reviving the proposal to fulfil his dream of "making a Shiv Sainik chief minister" of India's richest state.
Thackeray decided to ditch the BJP after Fadnavis claimed on October 30 that his party had never discussed rotating the chief ministership for two-and-a-half years each. "For the first time, someone has
