It’s unreasonable for Shiv Sena to demand from BJP an equal share in the Maharashtra government after winning just 56 seats. Such competing political interests threaten to keep the state on edge. It doesn’t augur well for a state that needs decisiveness to tackle the economic slowdown and farm distress.
Sena-BJP tussle doesn’t augur well for a state that needs decisiveness to tackle slowdown
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Each time flat / in fact, declining figures come in for manufacturing, private investment, exports, tax collections, one wonders why Maharashtra is not a lighthouse in the gathering dusk. Five years is a very long time for two dominant coalition partners to be in a state of near war, carried out on the edit pages of Saamna. Itna Sanaata toh Maximum City mein aaj tak sunai nahin diya.