Maharashtra’s 2022 Political Crisis: BJP-backed Shinde’s rebellion and the fall of the Thackeray government
The seeds of the 2022 Maharashtra political crisis were sown in the 2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly elections. The BJP and Shiv Sena (SHS) had contested the election jointly under the alliance Mahayuti, while the Indian National Congress (INC) and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) formed the Maha Aghadi alliance.