Maharashtra Congress President Nana Patole has said that the opposition alliance Maha Vikas Aghadi will make announcements on some of the 288 seats in the state before Dussehra. He said that more than 150 seats have been discussed in the MVA meeting.
Leaders of Mahavikas Aghadi also held a meeting in Mumbai on Wednesday to continue talks on the issue of seat sharing in Maharashtra Assembly elections. Mahavikas Aghadi leaders held the meeting at ‘Shivalay’, the office of Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT), in which Congress chiefs Nana Patole and Balasaheb Thorat, Sharadchandra Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Jayant Patil and Shiv Sena (UBT)’s Anil Patel were present. Desai and Sanjay Raut attended.
Sources said that talks on seat sharing between the opposition alliance are expected to be completed before Dussehra. He said the Congress wants to contest several seats in Vidarbha and Marathwada regions and is also ready to give more seats to the Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT) in Mumbai and Konkan. Sources said Shiv Sena (UBT) wants more seats in the Vidarbha region of eastern Maharashtra. A Congress leader said that an agreement has been reached among the constituent parties of Mahavikas Aghadi on ’90 percent seats’ of Mumbai, while discussions are going on on six seats.
Maharashtra Congress president Nana Patole has also said that the opposition alliance Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) will make announcements on some of the 288 seats in the state before Dussehra. He said that more than 150 seats were discussed in today’s MVA meeting. Patole said, “We will soon complete it and make announcements on many seats before Dussehra. More than 150 seats have been discussed in today’s meeting. We will take a decision on merits. The seats will be discussed soon.” But there will be clarity.”
Maharashtra Samajwadi Party MLA Abu Azmi said that the MVA alliance will fight the upcoming assembly elections strongly. He said, “MVA will fight strongly. Seats may be more or less. People are being divided in the name of religion. We are asking for 12 seats.”
After attending the meeting, NCP (Sharad) leader Jitendra Awhad said that there is no difference of opinion between the constituent parties. He said that the discussion on seat sharing is going well. “It was a long meeting and there is no animosity, the discussions were going well…about 288 seats were discussed,” Awhad said.
The Election Commission has not yet announced the election dates in the state but the politics of polarization is intensifying. The upcoming Maharashtra election is between the Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance, comprising the UBT Shiv Sena, NCP (Sharad Pawar faction) and Congress, and the Maha Yuti alliance, comprising the BJP, Shiv Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde faction) and NCP (Ajit Pawar faction). There is going to be a competition.