If the NDA alliance politics stand at a crossroad today in Maharashtra,it’s just an indicator of the times to come.The ruling BJP won only 105seats while it claims to have the support of some 15Independent MLAs, Its “blow hot blow cold ally” Shivsena is reduced to 56seats only ?In fact the results of Maharashtra and Haryana Assembly elections prove that people are loosing faith slowly in BJP.They must be realising their folly in giving a massive mandate to saffron party in the last parliamentary elections.The people also  have seen through its strategy of using religious polarisation and hyper nationalism to divert citizens attention from important issues such as dwindling economy ,unprecedented unemployment etc .But if you see the reality,I get a doubt whether these elections are held in the interests of the public or political parties? What we see today,is,the landslide victories result in parties exhibiting dictatorship,while hung lead to weak or no governance,and coalitions prompt political blackmailing.

So in the case Maharashtra BJP and Shivsena fought elections having pre-poll alliance and even won comfortably,if not landslide.But the rule book is secondary to perceptions now.With BJP weakened by lessor number of seats on its own,SS too tired of being relegated to the second spot on home ground,is insisting on rotational Chief ministership.So what should have been a consensus,is now an open war.BJP  which has  delivered stable governance and managed local issues with non-Maratha CM Fadnavis,May have a credible performance to bank on.

SS and BJP are strange bedfellows in fact.SS takes great pleasure in lashing out at BJP every other day is all what we have seen all these years.So what happens if SS doesn’t secure 50:50 demand?It has many options ahead of it.It can ditch BJPand seek to join hands with NCP-Congress for the sake of power,as SS shouldn’t have any problem with these parties as its base -Maratha&Kunbi -were after all part of congress base.The NCP leadership too is chip of old block.So why does not it simply do it?For a party that once dumped its ordinal slogan “”sons of the soil”” realising it’s redundant nature within 5years of its formation,in favour of “Hindutva nationalism “plank.It shouldn’t be worrisome factor to say goodbye to BJP.But SS must make it clear to the people whether it’s now working only to make Jr Thackeray CM ? If that’s the only goal ,well it should join with NCP-Congress or it could even force a President ‘s rule ,if it feels BJP should be taught a lesson for not yielding to its demands.Can it afford to do so? But now both are blackmailing each other,at the cost of governance.BJP must be looking at chinks in Sena’s armour,and is testing its patience.Similarly the other way Sena presumes it can bend BJP through its street politics and by spreading unrest in case BJP opts for a breakup.Nether PM nor HM  is in a hurry to have their government in place under uncertainty.IGNORING GOVERNANCE AND PEOPLE ‘S PROBLEMS IS NEW NORM NOW A DAYS