It must take tremendous effort and creative campaign strategies for the Opposition parties in Maharashtra to focus on the grave issues that matter in the forthcoming Assembly elections, for which voting is scheduled for next Wednesday. With a few days of campaigning to go, the slogans of the ruling Mahayuti — comprising the Bharatiya Janata Party, Shiv Sena led by Eknath Shinde, and Nationalist Congress Party led by Ajit Pawar — have become shrill and provocative. Two examples are “Batenge toh katenge” (divided, we perish) and “Ek hain toh safe hain” (together, we are safe). These have been unabashedly uttered by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, union home minister Amit Shah, Uttar Pradesh chief........

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