Mumbai, June 19 -- Maharashtra's volatile political landscape, already reeling from recent shifts within the Shiv Sena, is bracing for further turbulence as the Ajit Pawar-led faction of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has hinted at a major 'operation' to engineer defections from the Sharad Pawar camp.
The development comes on the heels of the political earthquake triggered by the induction of six Shiv Sena (UBT) Members of Parliament into the Eknath Shinde-led camp, dubbed locally as 'Operation Tiger.'Senior NCP (Ajit Pawar faction) leader and former minister Dharmarao Baba Atram made a sensational claim, asserting that the party is on the verge of poaching key leaders from the Sharad Pawar faction.
"At least five Members of Parliam...