IT was a foregone conclusion that matters related to the home department would create more problems than any other department in the Maha Vikas Aghadi. The disenchantment surfaced in the Shiv Sena camp when a Sena minister, who held the home department before the cabinet expansion, was told to give it up for the Nationalist Congress Party, which put one of its most experienced members, Anil Deshmukh, in charge. The developments over the past one month reaffirm that the department that deals with the stateu2019s law and order through several arms of the police force would make more news than ever in the days to come.

The chinks in the MVA showed when the issue of transferring of the Elgar Parishad probe from the Pune police to the National Investigation Agency ( NIA) came up at the home department and the Chief Ministeru2019s Office, respectively.