In the entire Vaze-Singh-Deshmukh episode, it’s Uddhav Thackeray who has misplaced. Pawar has escaped unscathed

Dilip Walse-Patil, veteran NCP chief and a detailed aide of Sharad Pawar, has been appointed as the brand new Home Minister of Maharashtra after the resignation of Anil Deshmukh. Many individuals see the resignation of Deshmukh because the lack of face for Sharad Pawar who has stood by the previous until the final second. On the opposite, in all the ‘Vaze-Singh-Deshmukh’ episode, it’s Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray and his occasion Shiv Sena who seem to have misplaced.If one does chilly a political evaluation, Pawar has really misplaced nothing and got here unscathed out of the state of affairs. To argue my aforementioned evaluation, I shall remind the readers why NCP made the federal government in alliance with Shiv Sena and Congress as an alternative of BJP within the first place. Pawar is as a lot a businessman as a politician, and he thinks in very ‘transactional terms’.  The main intention of the NCP behind the political energy is to earn cash for itself and its leaders, and Pawar has at all times been very clear about that. Had he allied with BJP and fashioned a authorities, the 100 crore goal that Anil Deshmukh gave to the suspended Mumbai police commissioner Sachin Vaze would have been out of attain as a result of the BJP doesn’t tolerate political corruption. Moreover, the BJP has individuals as shrewd and good as Sharad Pawar himself whereas Shiv Sena could possibly be fooled simply. Congress has leaders who’re as good because the Pawar household, however they’re the third wheeler within the alliance and don’t get pleasure from a lot say within the authorities.  Therefore, Sharad Pawar and his occasion leaders are allegedly reaping most advantages beneath this authorities whereas their accountability is almost zero. After his minister received uncovered within the extortion plan, he introduced in one other loyalist for the submit. Dilip Walse-Patil is among the many founding members of NCP and subsequently, he would serve the identical function for Pawar as Anil Deshmukh.Pawar seemingly has saved the extortion enterprise restricted to Mumbai as a result of he is aware of he has no place within the metropolis’s political area. Despite being one pole of Maharashtra’s politics for greater than twenty years, NCP has not been in a position to make a foothold in Mumbai and the town’s politics would proceed to be dominated by Shiv Sena, BJP, and Congress within the close to future. NCP makes use of the town as a milking cow to switch cash from the town to Western Maharashtra and the Marathwada area that are the political strongholds of the occasion. NCP would by no means run an extortion racket in Pune as a result of the town and its surrounding areas are its political base.Therefore, Sharad Pawar loses nothing with the resignation of Deshmukh and the entire Vaze episode. On the opposite hand, Shiv Sena has been allegedly uncovered as a corrupt occasion and Uddhav Thackeray as a powerless Chief Minister who can’t cease the exploitation of Mumbai. The metropolis has been the ability base for the occasion for 5 a long time however now it can in all probability be thrown out of BMC subsequent yr and out of state in 2024. The actual loser of this whole episode appears to be Shiv Sena and Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray whereas Sharad Pawar has come unscathed from the scandals that came about in the previous few years.