In Maharashtra, between Mahayuti and Mahavikas Aghadi, Mahayuti won.
Who will be the next CM of the grand alliance of BJP, Shiv Shiv Sena and NCP in Maharashtra? There is suspense about this. The statement was made public on Saturday that everyone together will decide the name of the Chief Minister. But by winning over 130 seats, the BJP alone has reduced the pressure on the CM in the alliance. However, this is not the first time there is suspense over the CM’s name in Maharashtra.
This has been happening in Maharashtra for the last 34 years. Every time a coalition government is formed and then the situation has not been clarified on behalf of CM. In such a situation, the question is why a government cannot be formed in Maharashtra without a coalition.
Assembly elections were held for 288 seats in Maharashtra and the BJP contested for 148 seats. The BJP-led Mahayuti alliance includes the Shiv Sena, led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), led by Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar. Mahayuti was competing with Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA). Which included the Shiv Shiv Sena (UBT) and NCP (SP) parties.
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The first elections were held in 1962.
The state of Maharashtra was formed on May 1, 1960 and elections to the state assembly were held for the first time in the year 1962. Then the Congress had won 215 seats. After this, the Congress won 203 seats in the 1967 elections. Before the 1978 elections, there was a split in the Congress and the Congress won 69 seats, the Indian National Congress (Indira) won 62 seats and the Janata Party won 99 seats.
Sharad Pawar then, along with 40 rebels, broke ties with the Congress government led by Chief Minister Vasantdada Patil and formed the Indian National Congress (Socialist). Along with the Janata Party, he formed the Democratic Progressive Front government. At just 38 years old, Pawar became the youngest Chief Minister of the country. However, his government fell in 1980. In the mid-term elections, the Congress again achieved a majority by winning 186 seats. The INC (U), which broke away from this group, won 47 seats, which were later joined by the main party.
BJP-Shiv Sena alliance in 1989
The BJP emerged as the political wing of the Jan Sangh on April 6, 1980, while the Shiv Sena, despite existing since January 19, 1966, had limited itself to local body elections. After 1989, Shiv Sena formed an alliance with the BJP and began contesting the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections. However, from 1962 to 1990, the Congress dominated Maharashtra politics. In the 1990 elections, the Congress won 141 seats, while the Shiv Sena won 52 seats and the BJP won 42 seats.
Shiv Sena-BJP won power for the first time
A change in the state’s politics came in 1995, when the Shiv Sena with 73 seats and the BJP with 65 seats along with 40 rebels took power for the first time. Manohar Joshi of Shiv Sena became Chief Minister and Gopinath Munde of BJP became Deputy Chief Minister. Then Congress, limited to 80 seats, was out of power. Five years later, on June 10, 1999, Sharad Pawar left the Congress and formed the NCP. After this, two political fronts were formed in the state, Congress-NCP and Shiv Sena-BJP. From 1999 to 2019, only coalition governments were formed in Maharashtra. There was a Congress and PCN government between 1999 and 2009.
The alliance returned to power in 2014.
In the 2014 elections, the BJP emerged as the largest party by winning 122 seats and once again formed the government with the Shiv Sena, which won 63 seats. This government lasted five years. In the 2019 elections, Shiv Sena broke ties with the BJP and formed a three-party alliance with the Congress-NCP and Uddhav Thackeray became the Chief Minister. However, in June 2022, the Shiv Sena broke away and the Shiv Sena, led by Eknath Shinde, formed the government with the BJP. Barely a year later, in July 2023, the NCP also split in two and Ajit Pawar became part of the Grand Alliance by rebelling against his uncle.
That is why a one-party government cannot be formed.
To date, BJP and Shiv Sena have never won a majority on their own in the state and when the NCP formed a new party outside the Congress, the seats continued to be divided between them. No party contested so many seats simultaneously that it could form a single-party government if it obtained the required majority numbers. Therefore, only coalition governments are continually formed. Today, coalition politics continues in Maharashtra and a single-party government is a distant dream.
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