Shiv Sena was founded by Late Bal Thackeray. NCP was founded by the illustrious 'self-styled Maratha strongman' Sharad Pawar.
There were politics of ideologies involved. With Bal Thackeray's Shiv Sena - two things mattered a lot ... Hindutva and Marathi Manus pride and their interests. In 2019, Uddhav Thackeray made the big compromise of Hindutva values and ideologies and made business for power with the likes of Hindutva-hater Sonia Gandhi and NCP stalwart Pawar.
For its part NCP - the party was floated in 1999 on the eve of general elections. Founded by 'Amar, Akbar, Anthony' -- Sharad Pawar, Tariq Anwar and P A Sangma -- the party's ideology was "India's prime minister should be India born".
"Raj karega Hindustani" was the slogan; and in retrospect it might have suited Atal Bihari Vajpayee. But in any case post-Kargil conflict; things were already in favour of the BJP for 1999 elections.
In 2022, when BJP worked to a plan in Maharashtra; Amit Shah was determined to 'teach' lessons to both Uddhav and Sharad Pawar. Eknath Shinde was spotted and his 'genuine political standpoint' was Uddhav had compromised on Hindutva.
The NCP split was mainly driven by uncle-nephew fight between Sharad Pawar and his now deceased nephew Ajit Pawar.
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For the Trinamool, the situation is completely different. The party, which was formed by Mamata Banerjee with the support of Late Mukul Roy was never built around any political ideology.
The rebellion by Ritabrata Banerjee and the 57 MLAs (possibly two more) is also not driven by ideology or mass support.
It is more about anger towards the TMC leadership, particularly Mamata's nephew and Lok Sabha MP Abhishek Banerjee.
Ousted TMC leader Ritabrata Banerjee below the portrait of TMC chief and former West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee in an old photo; Ritabrata leaves from Vidhan Sabha, in Kolkata on Wednesday. (Express Photo, ANI)
Though Ritabrata has said Mamata will be 'chief advisor' to the legislative wing (that is Team 58-60); he has thrown an open challenge to the party’s one-woman vote catching machine - Mamata Banerjee.
Team Mamata-Abhishek had selected 'yes man' Sovandeb Chattopadhyay for the Leader of the Opposition post. The rebel MLAs submitted a letter to the Speaker requesting to make Ritabrata the new LoP in the state assembly.
The rebels also named Sheuli Saha, Javed Khan, Sandipan Saha and Sabina Yasmin as deputy leaders in the House. The Trinamool Congress had won 80 seats and now Mamata may be left with less than 20 legislators or 'even much less' who will take orders from her or from her onetime 'extra constitutional' nephew Abhishek.
The speed with which things unfolded have surprised many. In Maharashtra, it took couple and years and months of planning and MLAs had to be shunted to Guwahati.
In West Bengal, all these have happened in less than a month after the Trinamool Congress suffered a crushing defeat on May4th -- when the results came in.
An article in 'India Today' puts it acidly:
"Over the years, we have seen that a large section of Trinamool leaders and workers are not exactly bound to the party by either loyalty or ideology.
This was evident ahead of the 2021 Assembly election.
Then, amid wide speculation that the Trinamool would be defeated, several high-profile leaders like Mukul Roy, Suvendu Adhikari and Rajib Banerjee joined the BJP ahead of the election.
However, as the TMC won by a thumping majority, the leaders returned one by one to the party."
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