Until this morning, Congress, Shiv Sena and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leaders probably felt they had the Maharashtra govt formation in their bag
Lars Thorsen, the leader of an organisation named Stop Islamization of Norway (SIAN) burnt a copy of the Quran while two copies of the religious text (The Holy Quran) were thrown in a trash can during the rally.
NCP chief Sharad Pawar also added that they cannot rule out a possibility of 'cheating by the governor'. "Ajit Pawar may have submitted 'ready-made' list of NCP MLAs," he added.
With BJP ditching its former alliance partner Shiv Sena to join hands with a faction from former Congress ally NCP, the meltdown of the ecosystem has already begun.