Ceasefire post the cold war?

Is there going to be a ceasefire between chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and his deputy Eknath Shinde, who are locked in a cold war?

- SHAILESH GAIKWAD

This is the chatter now after Fadnavis reversed his decision to appoint an IAS officer to head the MSRTC. According to transport department officials, a proposal was moved to hand over the responsibility of the MSRTC to transport minister Pratap Sarnaik of Shiv Sena. Sarnaik himself thanked the CM on social media on Saturday but deleted the post when he found out that an official order had not been issued.

This came immediately after Ajay Ashar, an aide of Shinde, was dropped from MITRA, a think tank for the state's development. Some see the MSRTC decision as a peace offering by Fadnavis who has already put on hold a few decisions and ordered a probe into some other decisions taken in the tenure of the previous Shinde-led Mahayuti government. His aides said Fadnavis did not want the ruling alliance to be a divided house when it was facing trouble: One of its ministers, Dhananjay Munde, had to resign within two months of the formation of the government and two more—agriculture minister Manikrao Kokate (NCP) and rural development minister Jaykumar Gore (BJP)—are embroiled in controversies.