New Delhi: Electoral defeats are not easy to digest. Especially when the parties are in an alliance. The inherent ideological differences, which are otherwise hidden and forgotten for electoral benefits, come to fore once the results are disappointing. Each considers the other culprit for the poor show, even if they do not go public with their pain. Something similar is being played out in the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) in Maharashtra and all is not well among Congress, Sharad Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray’s Shiv Sena. After the recent drubbing in the Maharashtra Assembly elections where the alliance failed to win even 50 seats (won 46 seats out of 288), the tension has been long simmering between the three.

Shiv Sena (UBT) leaders blamed Congress for being “overconfident after the Lok Sabha elections” and opined that “results could have been different had they (MVA) declared Uddhav Thackeray as the chief ministerial face”. Congress hit back saying that “more than 20 days were lost to reach seat sharing formula” with the Shiv Sena leaders and “if the mess could have been........

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