NEW DELHI : A political storm is brewing in Maharashtra over the state government’s alleged failure to contain the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.
A day after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led former chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and senior BJP leader Narayan Rane submitted an official memorandum to governor Bhagat Singh Koshiyari demanding President’s rule citing the surge in covid-19 cases, Shiv Sena on Tuesday asserted that the state government was on a ‘strong’ footing.
Since the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government, comprising the Shiv Sena, Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), took office last October, it has had its fare share of political uncertainty, until chief minister Uddhav Thackeray was nominated as a