By all accounts, the swearing-in of the new government in Maharashtra — only three men, to be precise — on Thursday evening at Mumbai’s historic Azad Maidan was a grand affair with collected crowds, coordinated colours, corporate czars, Bollywood stars besides the politicians of the ruling alliance Mahayuti. In attendance were eight union ministers, 12 chief ministers of BJP-governed states, and five chief ministers of its allies. There was more noise about the event than the unfolding of the event itself because, after 12 long days of negotiations between the allies – BJP, Shiv Sena and Nationalist Congress Party – only chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and his deputies Eknath Shinde and Ajit Pawar took the oath of........

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