Maharashtra political crisis: Why Uddhav Thackeray is desperate to keep Shiv Sena away from BJP https://ift.tt/j8yYKNa

From 1990 to 2004, the Shiv Sena was ahead of the BJP in the assembly elections. However, the trend reversed in 2009, when for the first time the BJP won two seats more than the Shiv Sena. This small margin of difference in the number of seats increased to a huge gap in 2014 when the BJP won 122 seats, nearly double of the Shiv Sena’s 63.