The day Nationalist Congress Party leader, Ajit Pawar, was sworn in as the deputy chief minister in the Eknath Shinde government last month, the BJP broke up the Maha Vikas Aghadi coalition in Maharashtra. By decimating the Shiv Sena first in June 2022 and the NCP exactly a year later, there is only the third constituent of the MVA – the Congress Party – which is holding the baton of the Opposition in the state. The MVA coalition, which was considered to be a strong opposition to the BJP, is now in pieces. While former chief minister and faction head of the Shiv Sena, Uddhav Thackeray, is trying to hold on to the MLAs who support him from being poached, NCP chief Sharad Pawar is caught up trying to rebuild his party after the defection of his nephew, Ajit Pawar, along with 40 NCP MLAs.