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Political Shifts and Strategy in Maharashtra

Tuesday, June 23, 2026
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Political Shifts and Strategy in Maharashtra

You hear about the whole situation happening in Maharashtra. It’s all shifting around right now after some big exits. Twenty Trinamool Congress MPs walked out. Then six Shiv Sena UBT Lok Sabha members left for the Eknath Shinde side. Media and folks watching politics are now really focused on the NCP , Sharad Pawar .

Five of the eight Nationalist Congress Party MPs are looking at leaving too. They’re considering jumping over to the BJP -led NDA . That kind of speculation just puts a huge amount of pressure on Pawar’s faction. Intense pressure, you know?

Sunetra Pawar actually met with Home Minister Amit Shah recently. Rumors are flying around about that meeting fueling all these rumors about what’s next. It just keeps things boiling over.

The NDA itself is pushing hard for something structural. They need a solid two-thirds majority in Parliament. That's how they plan to push through big constitutional changes, like the Uniform Civil Code or the Delimitation Bill. Things that matter.

In reaction to this looming threat what some are calling ‘Operation Tiger’ Sharad Pawar called an emergency meeting of his remaining leaders back in June. The goal was simple: keep the parliamentary bloc together and stop those poaching attempts. They needed unity, fast.

Then there's the state level stuff. The general assembly for MVA legislators is set for Mumbai on June 24th. That’s supposed to be a move to counter the defection scare. To coordinate whatever strategy they need in the state itself.

And meanwhile, separate from all that noise about splits and alliances, there are talks happening with the Congress . Reports suggest they are discussing some kind of strategic merger with the NCP (SP). The idea is to anchor and secure the opposition bloc before the next big political contests hit Maharashtra.

Sanjay Raut , the Shiv Sena UBT leader, recently made some comments. He suggested Pawar should take the lead in merging those smaller parties that popped up after splitting away from the Congress. Back with the Grand Old Party.

He said leaders who were part of the old Congress governments the same ideology they still hold onto they need to understand the situation now.

“If this ideology comes together,” Raut put it, “it poses a big challenge to Narendra Modi .” He then pushed that Pawar should step up and take charge regarding this whole thing. It’s about strength. The Congress has to be strong. And those leaders who came from it, the smaller parties, they just have to grasp what’s going on right now.

Maharashtra politics is moving so fast. It's a constant state of flux. These next few days are going to tell us something big. Will Sharad Pawar manage to hold his faction together? Or will it end up suffering the same fate as the TMC and Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena ? It’s all tied up in this movement.

Written by Gree News Team — Senior Editorial Board

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