Anything for power
The Shiv Sena is the closest to the Bharatiya Janata Party in
terms of ideology and policies, but yet the two seem to be parting. Differences over seat-sharing for the polls to the urban local bodies
in Maharashtra could be the reason. Sena refuses to be a junior partner of the BJP, having headed the government in 1995.
The results of the local body elections will lay the basis for seat negotiations
for battles with higher stakes: the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in 2019. Both
have indulged in name-calling and traded corruption charges.
The Sena played down the strident Marathi chauvinism of its
early years in favour of Hindutva nationalism. The Sena campaign for the civic
bodies has grown to include attacks on not only the failings of the Devendra
Fadnavis government but also the record of the Narendra Modi government at the
Centre and its flip-flops on demonetisation.
In India the polity has shifted to right. We need two parties
to keep tab on one another. Otherwise BJP will become Congress.
It would be difficult even for a political analyst to predict
what is in store in 2019 which is two years away. Political equations and
combinations change in short durations like the SP split in UP and the SP
Congress alliance there
Taste for power is the mantra which will turn parties from
their key ideologies and Shiv Sena is not an exception. Now its electoral equation with BJP
sends clear signal that it wants more power through the upcoming local body
elections. It starts throwing mud on Fednavis and Modi. It is a million dollar
question as to how Sena will behave with BJP after the election.
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