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rewrite this content and keep HTML tags Nationalist Congress Party chief Ajit Pawar has emerged as one of the biggest winners in the Maharashtra Assembly elections, winning 41 of the 58 seats contested by his party. Not long ago, during the Lok Sabha elections, Ajit Pawar’s party managed to win just one of the four seats it contested, while NCP’s Sharad Pawar won eight of the 10 seats. Many critics of Ajit Pawar started writing obituaries for him and claimed that NCP could not exist without Sharad Pawar. However, Ajit Pawar has proved all the critics wrong. At the time…

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rewrite this content and keep HTML tags The assembly election results of Maharashtra and Jharkhand have seen the incumbents retaining power in their respective states. Their victory is being attributed to the direct cash transfer schemes launched by their governments a few months before the elections.We found that when state governments actually gave cash transfers to women before assembly elections, they not only successfully managed to avoid anti-incumbency, but also improved their numbers from the previous elections. This applies only when cash distribution has actually been made and not when pre-poll promises of cash assistance have been made.Let’s take a…

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rewrite this content and keep HTML tags 1. Taking advantage of Shiv Sena MLAs’ dissatisfaction towards Congress-NCPFirst, to take advantage of the serious discontent in Shiv Sena with Congress-NCP in 2019. The most unusual alliance was formed in 2019 when Uddhav Thackeray broke ties with BJP and joined hands with Congress-NCP. The growing restlessness of Army officers and MLAs and the perceived reach of Uddhav Thackeray was Shinde’s leverage which led to the rebellion.2. To become the people’s CMThe doors of Varsha, the official bungalow of the Maharashtra Chief Minister, are always open to the common man – a fact…

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