India, Aug. 13 -- The subterraneous differences between the three parties that form the Mahayuti are known to surface intermittently. To offset the drubbing it received in the Lok Sabha election the state government launched the Mukhyamantri Majhi Ladki Bahin Yojana recently to garner votes from a specific demographic in the forthcoming Assembly election.

However, with the date for disbursement of funds to underprivileged women drawing near (August 17) chief minister Eknath Shinde has not let any opportunity slide to promote the scheme but when his deputy, Ajit Pawar head of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), set out to woo the same electorate, he did so under the banner of Jansanwad Yatra, the outreach programme started last week. On...