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The Maharashtra Assembly elections, which are just eight days away, will decide not only who will rule the state for the next five years but also the medium and long term future of two major regional parties, Sharad Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party and Bal Thackeray’s Shiv Sena. For Sharad Pawar, it is probably his last major political battle before he hangs up his boots after a long innings in public life. He has already hinted that he would like to retire from politics and that younger ...