The BJP leadership seems to have cashed in on a long-standing feud within NCP patriarch Sharad Pawar's family by managing an overnight coup just as final contours of a coalition between the Congress, NCP and Shiv Sena to form government in Maharashtra were emerging.

from Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/rift-within-pawar-family-helped-bjp-execute-its-plan-b/articleshow/72199121.cms