Amid speculations that the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) is disintegrating and the BJP is out to destabilise the three-party government, NCP boss and MVA architect Sharad Pawar met Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Monday night, apparently to address any anomalies, amid the COVID-19 pandemic which is proving to be an acid test for the three-party government.

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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi fuelled the disintegration theory and complicated matters for the MVA by saying in New Delhi on Tuesday that his party was not in a position to take important decisions in Maharashtra. "We support the government but we are not the key decision makers in Maharashtra. There is a difference between running a government and supporting a government," he said, clearly washing the party's hands of the pandemic escalation. However, he also demanded that the Centre help Maharashtra.