And, with the rumoured announced alliance between the Nationalist Congress Party – Ajit Pawar and the Nationalist Congress Party – Sharad Pawar for the upcoming PMC and PCMC elections, with the Indian National Congress set to join in with the now together Thackeray cousins, all I can say is that Maharashtra politics hasn’t changed much since I wrote this back in November 2019:
I refuse to comment further on Maharashtra politics on the grounds that I have absolutely no clue about it any more. I wonder if anyone actually does. Including the players themselves. It is like we are all part of some drug-addled addict’s psychedelic dreams, where anything can happen and the laws of nature change from moment to moment. I feel I am in some kind of hallucination which is a cross between Alice in Wonderland and Inception, with rabbits in top hats running out of buildings that fold onto themselves and disappearing cats in mirrors that appear on the street out of nowhere as I helplessly watch, knowing fully this is a drug-induced fiction of my mind, and that I should soon wake up, but being unable to do anything about it as the world around me goes berserk.
The only thing I can think of saying is from a B-Grade comedy where Paresh Rawal hammed his way through by speaking a weird mix that was both Gujarati and Marathi but strangely was supposed to be Hindi. So, here goes:
Utha le re, Baba. Mujhey nahin. Unhe.
