Cut The Clutter: Nuances of national, regional and family politics in Maharashtra Pawar-play & how BJP plays the game

In Maharashtra Sunday, NCP chief Sharad Pawar’s nephew Ajit Pawar rebelled again with some senior leaders and joined the Shinde-BJP govt. With this move, Ajit was back as deputy CM for the fifth time. In this latest turn in Maharashtra politics lie several different threads: BJP’s approach to securing power, ideology and dynasty politics. In Ep 1263 of Cut The Clutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta unpacks the lessons this big NCP switch holds for politics in India, national and regional.