While the rest of India will have its eyes on Maharashtra, given that it is the biggest decider and swing state in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, Maharashtras attention seems to be focussed on its capital, Mumbai. Mumbai’s mysterious ways are more unfathomable than an OTT web series this election season.
The Thackeray cousins, an aggressive BJP, Indias grand old party the Congress and smaller outfits, are all angling for their share of the Mumbai pie. If there are two factors that are on political activists minds this time, these would be the lack of any one major political issue related to the city and the confusion about the changes in election symbols given to various parties by the ECI, such as Uddhav Thackerays Shiv Sena and Sharad Pawars NCP.
https://www.freepressjournal.in/mumbai/fpj-analysis-why-mumbai-matters
Source – The Free Press Journal
