These are tough times for the NDA, or whatever is left of it. The BJP would have surely expected trouble from its Bihar partner, but it did not expect much adverse activity from its beleaguered partner in Maharashtra, the Shiv Sena. That is exactly what it got recently, when the Shiv Sena mouthpiece Saamanaa chose to hit at Narendra Modi for his one-upmanship in the wake of the Uttarakhand tragedy.