Maratha satrap Sharad Pawar is a disturbed man these days. He feels that had his party made some more hard effort, or if he had toured the state more extensively, or had Sonia or Rahul stepped into Maharashtra, the state municipal polls could have seen a different result. He is also ruing the moment when poll talks between his NCP and the Congress broke down. And he squarely blames Prithviraj Chauhan for this. He is clear that it is Chauhan’s back stabbing for which the Congress-NCP dialogue failed, because Chauhan was demanding many of those seats where the NCP was sure to win. When Pawar did not grant those, the budding alliance was shattered.