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The 2022 Maharashtra political crisis began on 21 June 2022 in the Indian state of Maharashtra when Eknath Shinde, along with several other MLAs of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) coalition moved to Surat in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-governed Gujarat, throwing the coalition into a crisis.
After the 2023 Maharashtra political crisis, the Ajit Pawar faction of Nationalist Congress Party also joined the government. In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections in Maharashtra , which was the first major election after the split of the Nationalist Congress Party and Shiv Sena, Maha Vikas Aghadi won 30 out of 48 seats while Maha Yuti could only get ...
Sharad Pawar, a dominant political figure of Maharashtrian politics for more than forty years Bal Thackeray, founder of Shiv Sena. The Indian National Congress (INC) party has dominated the politics of Maharashtra since the state's inception in 1960, as well as its predecessor of Bombay State. [17]
The 2023 Nationalist Congress Party split occurred on 2 July 2023, when Ajit Pawar, along with several other party leaders, broke away from the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) led by his uncle Sharad Pawar and joined the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-Shiv Sena alliance government in Maharashtra. [1]
Shiv Sena President Uddhav Thackeray was sworn is as the 19th Chief Minister of Maharashtra. BJP became the principal opposition party in Maharashtra. [2] On 21 June 2022, Eknath Shinde, a senior Shiv Sena leader, along with several other MLAs of the Maha Vikas Aghadi moved to Surat, Gujarat throwing the coalition into a crisis. [3]
The political crisis concluded when discussions between Shiv Sena, NCP and INC lead to the formation of a new alliance, Maha Vikas Aghadi. A new government was formed by the Maha Vikas Aghadi, a new alliance of Shiv Sena , the Indian National Congress , and the Nationalist Congress Party , under Uddhav Thackeray .
The alliance was formed by non-NDA political parties in Maharashtra as a result of 2019 Maharashtra political crisis where the Shiv Sena left the NDA post-polls over differences with the BJP in their preferred candidates for Chief Minister and other important portfolio positions after the 2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election.
After 2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election, the party left the alliance after disagreements with BJP over the CM post. Under Uddhav Thackeray, Shiva Sena formed an alliance with its historic rivals, the Indian National Congress and Nationalist Congress Party [19] [20] [21] Following the 2022 Maharashtra political crisis, the party split.