Maharashtra | Sharad power, a teaser

Download App Is the NCP (SCP) going to chum up with the BJP? Straws in the wind hint at negotiations—with Shinde as a crucial plot device It would be nothing short of an axial shift in Maharashtra politics if it comes through. The Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar), the rump group left by the split of the Ajit Pawar faction exactly three years ago, is now itself seen as veering closer to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Not exactly through an NCP reunion—the idea floated by some after Ajit’s demise. But through an independently growing proximity with other elements of the ruling coalition. Recent signs of warmth along those liaison lines have fuelled speculation about whether the party will back the renewed bid of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) to have the proposed delimitation bill passed in Parliament, and even join it in power.