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An RSS-affiliated Marathi weekly has blamed the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) alliance with the Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) for the party's poor performance in Lok Sabha polls in Maharashtra. The BJP, which contested the Lok Sabha elections in the state in alliance with the NCP (Ajit Pawar) and Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena, could win only nine of the 28 seats it contested in 2024 general elections. The party had won 23 of the 48 seats in the state in the 2019 elections. Overall, the Mahayuti, comprising the BJP, the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena and the Ajit…