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This paper is based on the assembly elections of Maharashtra held in October 2019. Election results were in favour of ruling NDA alliance – BJP and Shiv Sena (SS) but in fact before six months NDA sweep 41 out of 48 parliamentary seats from Maharashtra and raise the level of expectations from upcoming assembly elections. All exit polls predict that this ruling alliance will win minimum 165 and maximum 220 seats. Only one exit poll show this lowest range. In 2014, both SS and BJP fought separately and won 63 and 122 seats respectively, total 185. They fought elections collectively and shade few seats, BJP won 105 and SS won 56 seats that means they won 161 seats 15-16 seats more than the required 145 for majority but lost 24 seats as compared to 2014. After results something in between them create distance the pre poll alliance and the alliance got broken. Now new combination is coming up. But this paper is focused on the results, why a party who won 23 parliamentary seats alone and collectively won 41 seats with socio-political backing throughout Maharashtra fails to increase its assembly seats and not even that loose some seats. Present paper is focused on this question and tried to give some reasons and causes of BJP-SS losses in this election.