Opinion: Maharashtra Battle Not Just Another State Election. Why Everyone, From RSS To Modi-Shah, Has Fingers Crossed

PM Narendra Modi with Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde and other Mahayuti leaders at a public rally in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar last Thursday.

Source : PTI

With the Maharashtra election campaigns falling silent, political gladiators are engaged in marshaling their forces to boost their respective polling — election management — leaving no stone unturned, as the cliché goes. The stakes are high in Maharashtra — this may be an election to a state assembly, but the result will have an impact on the nation’s polity, and could alter the dynamics of intra-BJP relations and the equations within the Sangh Parivar. The result