India, June 17 -- Days after the Lok Sabha elections, the rumblings within the ruling Mahayuti with regard to power-sharing have intensified. The Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena, by flaunting its superior strike rate, has laid claim to the big brother title in the alliance while the Ajit Pawar faction of the NCP has announced that it deserves a respectable number of seats in the assembly polls. The tussle between the three parties is expected to increase even more, as the ruling alliance is planning to go in for a cabinet expansion.

By winning seven of the 15 seats it fought, the Shinde Sena registered a better strike rate than even the BJP which won just nine seats of the 28 it contested. The NCP (Ajit Pawar) was the worst, winning just one...