Prime Minister Sharadchandra Govindrao Pawar?

Something doesn’t add up in Maharashtra or does it:  Prime Minister Sharadchandra Govindrao Pawar?

The Thackeray twins doing a brotherly tango.  Sharad Pawar being offended by mere seating arrangements!!!  All happening in real time, almost concurrently.

Something doesn’t add up.  So let’s peddle a few theories.

Beginning with Sharad Pawar:

SP never ends up on the losing side. Never.  His only missteps can be attributed to his oversized ambition to capture Delhi.  Once that ambition was snuffed out, his moves have been almost clinical.

Secondly, nothing in Maharastra politics happens without his express consent or machinations.

Even the formation of the first SS-BJP govt. came about thanks to his blessings.  Actually, thanks to CONgress rebels he put up, who in turn supported the SS-BJP combine.  There were 45 independents supporting that govt. and almost every single one was a Pawar supported MLA.

Even formation of MNS was a Pawar power move.  Carefully calibrated to have max. impact just in time for the 2009 and 2010 elections.

Pawar is perhaps India’s most talented political Nostradamus.   

Is Pawar seeing something on the horizon, in the not so distant future that has forced him to expedite a plan he may have kept under his sleeve.

So its well within the realm of possibility that events of the past week are part of a master plan being finally put in motion.

Is Pawar too eyeing Race course road and moving to consolidate his hold over Maharastra so as to use a solid 40 MPS to propel him to national center stage?

Let us look at the rather absurd political actions of various Maharastrian political parties in just the last few weeks.

1.        SS voting against BJP presidential and VP candidates.

2.       Raj, Uddhav burying the hatchet

3.       Pawar suddenly finding his long lost backbone

4.       MNS for no rhyme or reason abstaining from Presidential polls

Is it possible that Sharad Pawar is very deftly engineering a realignment of forces within Maharastra to launch a Maharastra based regional coalition.

An NCP-SS-MNS-RPI alliance would not only be formidable but unbeatable. 

CONgress for all intents and purposes is now a North Indian, Mumbai based outfit.

 Sharad Pawar controls the sugar lobby and will negate any influence that the Vilasraos of the world exercise in that region.  Besides, apart from Vilas and Sharad there aren’t many towering Maratha leaders left.

BJP was always a marathwada based outfit.  But as the last election proved, even that stronghold can be breached.

Bottomline:

Sharad Pawar could strike a deal with SS/MNS – give me 40 MPs in the next election and I’ll give you access to Mantralaya. 

Sharad Pawar justifies alliance by saying he wants to keep Narendra Modi out.  Plays the hero “Look I have weakened the BJP.  How much more secular can I get”?

Another factor:  the mere thought of a Marathi competing for the long cherished throne of Delhi may galvanize the Marathi manoos into forgiving Sharad Pawar’s past sins and voting for a Marathi Manoos combine.

Pull these disparate strings together and you have the makings of a blockbuster trade, engineered by Chankya Sharad.

Prime Minister Sharadchandra Govindrao Pawar?

p.s. I think this notion about Sharad Pawar wanting to quit thanks to impending corruption charges is a smokescreen.  Don’t buy it one bit.  This is the same Sharad Pawar who was Shahid Balwa’s political mentor.  Has anything on 2g stuck to Pawar?  And you expect us to believe that a few crores on Maharastra Sadan related corruption charges will scare Pawar.  Give me a break.