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State politics but also caused organisational upheavals beneath the ground in all the three partnering parties in multiple ways. Congress, initially hesitant to join hands with Sena had to suffer a guilt conscious while trying to preserve its secular credentials. For Shiv Sena, it was like divorcing an old associate while simultaneously coping with two strange bedfellows both of whom it had earlier proclaimed as criminals known for multiple violations. For Nationalist Congress, although compromises were never so very hard as the Party was known for no strong ideological base and clear policy view, Ajit Pawar wee hours adventurism certainly ruptured its claim to pure anti Modi ism. Besides, it also brought to the fore the fault lines within the organisation as it got divided between nephew and the daughter of the party supremo. In order to conceal the guilt conscious deep in their hearts, all the three partners adopted a complete confrontationist approach towards not just BJP and the Centre but more particularly, PM Modi. It is now an established fact that magnanimity is in short supply with all the leading lights of the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi. For journals run by the CM, adversarial politics has become the only agenda making venom spitting an everyday activity. MVA leadership has failed in reaching out to the principal opposition party, the BJP. Neither are simple courtesies extended to the opposition nor are sincere attempts made to build bridges with the centre or the BJP. As the spectre of Raj Thackeray outsmarting the ruling branch of Thackerays is becoming obvious, Shiv Sena leadership is getting more and more paranoid and restless. Add to this the repeated attempts of Nationalist Congress Party NCP to look at every other subject from caste angle. Earlier, although it could work that way, NCP had obliquely tried to portray Devendra Fadanvis as Brahmin. Now, NCP has its fingers burnt as it has not been able to provide the much talked about quota for both, the Marathas as well as the OBC communities. One wonders whether Shiv Sena agrees to both other partners on the subject of quota for Muslims, something not so easy to digest for even a transformed Sena. Suffering from multiple guilt conscious, both Shiv Sena and NCP have failed in adding any value to Governance in the State. Congress, the third partner was any way not known for any good governance at all. The crisis is confounded with the deafening silence of the thinkers and men of letters. From Lokmanya Tilak to Acharya Atre and later Govind Talwalkar, Marathi mainstream media was always known for not mincing words while criticising the State Govt. Same was the case with litterateurs. From Durga Bhagwat to Aruna Dhere, many eminent men and women of letters had steadfastly remained away from being seen as too close to the ruling establishment. Today, all this has become a thing of the past. The scenario at two recent editions of Marathi Sahitya Sammelan or gathering of litterateurs at Nasik and.