Summary:
As a saying in Marathi goes, people and institutions are often hurt more by success than defeat. Perhaps nothing typifies this more than the game of beating the other as goes on between the BJP and the Shiv Sena after their success in the Lok Sabha polls, where the saffron combine won 41 of the 48 seats in Maharashtra. Before the polls, the Shiv Sena, after almost five years of incessant sniping with the BJP, buried the hatchet and its short-lived decision to contest the elections all by itself. The BJP then emerged as the single-largest party in the Assembly with 122 seats, followed by the Shiv Sena with a much lower 63, turning the tables on the later, which had traditionally dominated the alliance. Sardesai, is a core committee member of the Yuva Sena, and the maternal cousin of Aaditya Thackeray, who heads the Shiv Sena's youth wing..