Sharad Pawar is not called the Chanakya of Maharashtra politics for nothing. No one could imagine what the Maratha Governor did in the MVA alliance on Thursday. The NCP (Sharad Pawar) is much weaker than the Congress and the Uddhav Shiv Sena in the MVA, but it has won for itself that its two allies will contest the elections Same number of votes. This is no simple achievement. Those who follow Maharashtra politics closely know that this time the elder politician has hinted that the NCP(SP) will not agree to a reduction in shared seats. When the opportunity came, he did just that. The opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance has now worked out a compromise package for 255 of the 288 seats in the Maharashtra Assembly elections to be held on November 20. Three of the allies received 85-85 seats. But this is a major achievement for the Sharad Pawar-led NCP (SP). This has taken the lead in the power struggle between the Congress and the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT). Now, it remains to be seen who will become the chief minister if the MVA government is formed.
1- The extra seats in the NCP(SP) camp are the result of Pawar’s political skills.
The NCP(SP) has not contested for the chief minister’s post so far. Sharad Pawar, 83, is focused solely on selecting his party’s candidates and campaigning. The NCP (SP) plans to contest in about 70-75 seats. It follows that he had no ambition or campaign for the premiership. But now, when the NCP (SP) is contesting 85 seats, whichever party wins the most seats can become the chief minister.
In the recently held Lok Sabha elections, the NCP (SP) performed best among all its peers. Pawar ensured victory for six new faces in the state.
“The Indian Express” wrote that the reason why the three political parties participating in the MVA in Maharashtra agreed to participate in the election with equal seats was because of Pawar’s political acumen and bargaining power. Pawar also swapped some seats with allies, giving him more seats. For example, he gave up the Patan seat in western Maharashtra to the Shiv Sena Party (UBT), which had not won in the region in the past 10 years, and in return he The Darfur region received a number of other seats. Apart from this, he will also induct Kishore Georgewal, an independent MP from Chandrapur seat, into his party, raising his hopes of getting another seat.
2- Sharad Pawar recently expressed his desire to become the chief minister of his party?
Sharad Pawar played a major role in forming the anti-BJP government in Maharashtra in 2019 by raising Uddhav Thackeray’s name. But after this disbandment, he may be determined to prove himself. He has made such gestures several times during this period and it looks like he now wants to see someone from the NCP(SP) as the chief minister. He also said recently that the NCP (SP) will demand more seats this time. Pawar did as he was told. Now, eyes are on the next target. A few days ago, he praised Maharashtra SP chief Jayant Patil for his leadership and expressed full confidence in him at a party rally held in Islampur in Sangli district. I am confident that Patil will take the state in the right direction. His statement was seen in political circles as his party recommending Patil as a possible chief ministerial candidate.
After many rounds of negotiations and hard bargaining between the Congress Party and Uddhav Sena, Pawar also played an important role in the announcement of the three-party 85-85-85 seat formula. Both the Congress and Shiv Sena (UBT) are contesting on 100 seats. Because once MVA wins, the more seats he has, the stronger his claim to the chief ministership will be. The Shiv Sena (UBT) is looking to nominate Uddhav Thackeray as chief minister, while the Congress party also has several chief ministerial contenders, helped by the party’s success in the recent Lok Sabha elections The party is the largest political party in the state. Ready.
3-It is not without reason that Pawar is called the Chanakya of Maharashtra politics.
Because in Maharashtra politics, Sharad Pawar is known for doing things that no one knows or understands. Be it by putting Uddhav Thackeray on the Maharashtra throne with fewer MLAs or by sending his nephew Ajit Pawar to the people of India The party camp made him deputy prime minister. Not only did he make him deputy prime minister, he immediately recalled him and humiliated a powerful duo like Modi Shah. Currently, his nephew Ajit Pawar is deputy prime minister in Shinde government and is also campaigning with Modi Shah. Mahayutti Alliance. But there are still many who believe that Uncle Pawar may have inserted his nephew into his counter-organization as a result of some strategy. Because every time the nephew meets his uncle, NDA’s heartbeat increases. Now uncle’s new feat is that NCP (SP) has to get equal number of seats as Congress and Shiv Sena (UBT) in MVA.
Perhaps this is why Sharad Pawar is known as the Chanakya of Maharashtra politics. He has influence across all parties. He served as a Union Minister in the Manmohan Singh government for ten years. The Modi government awarded him the Padma Vibhushan Award. After the Emergency, he rebelled against Indira Gandhi and quit the Congress Party, forming a government with the BJP in Maharashtra in 1978 and serving as the state’s chief minister. Indira dissolved his government in 1980, but by 1983, Sharad Pawar reestablished his firm position in national politics by forming the Congress Samaj Party.
His party’s victory in the 1985 parliamentary elections with 54 seats brought him back to national politics. Sharad Pawar resigned from the Lok Sabha and led the opposition in the Assembly. In 1987, he returned to the original party congress. Expressed confidence in Rajiv Gandhi’s leadership and was close to him. Sharad Pawar succeeded Shankar Rao Chavan as chief minister in 1988.
In the 1990 assembly elections, the Congress won 141 out of 288 seats, but political expert Sharad Pawar managed to form the government with the help of 12 independent MLAs. In this way, he was successfully elected prime minister for the third time. Not only that, after the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi in 1991, Sharad Pawar’s name was also included in the Prime Minister’s post along with Narayan Dutt Tiwari and PV Narasimha Rao campaign. .
