Updated On: 14 June, 2021 07:44 AM IST | Mumbai | Dharmendra Jore
MVA constituents seem to be playing with each other to ensure continuation amid talk of instability

PWD Minister Ashok Chavan, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar during their meeting last week in New Delhi. Thackeray and Modi had their one-on-one meet before this meeting. File pic
Power binds. Leaders of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) are well aware of this phenomenon. The tripartite arrangement also knows that if power binds, it can break them as well. So, in order to keep the show running, expect the MVA partners to keep each other under pressure to be part of the game as long as it works fine for them. Recent developments, a series of meetings between the political who’s who and the meaningful statements they made reaffirms the understanding that their differences notwithstanding, the Shiv Sena, the Nationalist Congress Party and the Indian National Congress would try their best to cohabit to have a full five-year term in Maharashtra.
It seems the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would require a restructured template to make headway for breaking up the tripartite alliance mid-term, though it has been predicting that the internal squabbles would lead to the MVA’s fall. BJP leaders have been giving deadlines for the collapse as if they were actively involved in the demolition plan, but they had to eat their own words.