In the history of coalition governments in Maharashtra, it never happened that all ministers belonging to one of the partners in the coalition stayed absent at a state cabinet meeting. This happened at the government headquarters on Tuesday this week! A historic development, as all ministers belonging to the Shiv Sena decided to, reportedly, "boycott" the cabinet meeting. Naturally, the news became sensational. It exposed the cracks in the Mahayuti partners, the BJP and the Shiv Sena, and gave credence to the theory that there was a cold war brewing between Shiv Sena leader and Deputy CM Eknath Shinde and the BJP's top leader in the state, CM Devendra Fadnavis!

A lot of discussion has already happened in the media about the pushes and pulls happening between the Mahayuti alliance partners

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