All is not well in the Mahayuti (the expanded NDA in Maharashtra). Their differences have been stark. BJP’s allies Shinde Sena and Ajit Pawar’s NCP have had their ways to protest against and counter the big brother. Early this week, Shinde Sena’s MP, Gajanan Kirtikar defended his son Amol Kirtikar, who chose to be the Thackeray Sena’s candidate in Mumbai North West constituency that his father will represent till the Lok Sabha gets dissolved. 

The duo had an understanding because the father skipped the electoral battle, but assured he would campaign against the son. According to reports on Friday, he campaigned for his party, and how. On Thursday, he gave his son a clean chit in the under-investigation ‘COVID-19 khichdi scam’. Kirtikar said that even the officers of the Enforcement Directorate (ED), who were probing his son knew that there was no scam in his son’s khichdi business.