<p>In a bolt from the blue, the Left-wing Peasants & Workers Party (PWP) has given support to the BJP and Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.</p>.<p>The PWP, which in 2014, had three MLAs, now has been reduced to one.</p>.<p>The lone MLA, Shyamsunder Shinde, who has won from Loha in Nanded district, has met Fadnavis and extended his support. Shinde is a former IAS officer.</p>.<p>Incidentally, Shinde is the brother-in-law of Prataprao Govindrao Chikhalikar, the BJP MP from Nanded, who had defeated the then state Congress President and former Chief Minister Ashok Chavan.</p>.<p>PWP is a Marxist party founded in 1947. Currently, it is headed by Jayant Patil, who hails from the Raigad district.</p>
<p>In a bolt from the blue, the Left-wing Peasants & Workers Party (PWP) has given support to the BJP and Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.</p>.<p>The PWP, which in 2014, had three MLAs, now has been reduced to one.</p>.<p>The lone MLA, Shyamsunder Shinde, who has won from Loha in Nanded district, has met Fadnavis and extended his support. Shinde is a former IAS officer.</p>.<p>Incidentally, Shinde is the brother-in-law of Prataprao Govindrao Chikhalikar, the BJP MP from Nanded, who had defeated the then state Congress President and former Chief Minister Ashok Chavan.</p>.<p>PWP is a Marxist party founded in 1947. Currently, it is headed by Jayant Patil, who hails from the Raigad district.</p>
