“Do the Math now: Implications of Ajit Pawar’s monsoon ‘Maskirovka'”, Swarajyamag, July 2, 2023:
“When Russian mercenary boss Yevgeny Prighozin rebelled against his own side last month for a day, before meekly backing off, some analysts said this was actually a Maskirovka – a ploy of deception – run by Moscow to move fresh troops closer to the north-eastern Ukrainian border without raising the alarm.
Ajit Pawar’s monsoon Maskirovka had been under composition for a lot longer, and is at least as momentous as Prighozin’s move, if not more.
Today, he and a number of legislators from the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) left the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) coalition (consisting of the Congress, Uddhav Thackeray, and the NCP) to join the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) coalition government of Chief Minister Eknath Shinde (comprising of the Shiv Sena and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)).
Chief Minister Shinde put the day’s surprising developments into words thus: ‘A double engine Sarkar under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has now become a triple engine Sarkar…..”
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