The seat sharing between the Maha Vikas Aghadis (MVA) for the 288 seats in the state for the Maharashtra Assembly Elections 2024 has been decided on Tuesday. The meeting of the leaders of the three parties lasted for about 4 hours. After the meeting, Shiv Sena Uddhav leader Sanjay Raut said – Seat sharing in MVA has been finalized. There will be no more meetings. He will announce the seat allocation in a press conference on Wednesday.
According to media reports, the seat sharing in the assembly elections has been decided based on the results of the Lok Sabha elections in MVA. In which Congress will contest on 100-105 seats, Shiv Sena Uddhav on 96-100 and NCP Sharad on 80-85 seats. Other parties may get 3-6 seats.
Maharashtra will go to polls in one phase on November 20. The result will be out on 23rd November. The tenure of the state assembly ends on November 26.
Before the seat sharing was finalized on Monday, Shiv Sena (UBT) Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut said that 210 of the 288 assembly seats in the MVA had been agreed upon.
Akhilesh sought 12 seats from MVA
The Samajwadi Party (SP) has sought 12 seats from the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) in Maharashtra. Party chief Akhilesh Yadav announced the candidate from Dhule assembly seat on October 19. Speaking to the media after this, he said – We have asked for 12 seats from MVA. Seat details have also been sent to him.
On 18 October, the party announced the fielding of sitting MLA Raees Sheikh from Bhiwandi East, Riyaz Azmi from Bhiwandi West and Shan-e-Hind from Malegaon Central. SP's Maharashtra state president and MLA Abu Asim Azmi said- We have announced five candidates so that MVA knows that we are strong here, otherwise they will say in the meeting that your candidate is not strong.
BJP released first list on October 21, 79 faces repeated
The BJP announced the first list of 99 candidates for the assembly elections on October 21. Out of which 6 seats are for ST and 4 seats for SC. Also, tickets have been given to women on 13 seats. Whereas, there are 10 candidates who will be contesting for the first time. Three sitting independent MLAs have also been given tickets.
Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis will contest from south-west Nagpur and Maharashtra BJP president Chandrasekhar Bawankule from Kamathi. Shrijaya Chavan, daughter of former Maharashtra CM Ashok Chavan, has been given a ticket from Bhokar and Santosh Danve, son of former Union Minister Raosaheb Danve, has been given a ticket from Bhokardan seat.
Single phase election on 20th November, results on 23rd November
The term of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly ends on 26 November 2024. In Maharashtra, there is a coalition government of Shiv Sena, BJP and NCP Ajit Pawar group. The division of votes between the anti-incumbency and the six big parties will be a major challenge for the Sadhana Party.
Maharashtra 2019 Assembly Election Equation
In 2019, there was a BJP-Shiv Sena alliance. BJP won 105 and Shiv Sena 56 seats. NCP got 54 seats and Congress got 44 seats from the alliance. BJP-Shiv Sena could have easily come to power, but differences broke the alliance.
On 23 November 2019, Fadnavis was sworn in as Chief Minister and Ajit Pawar as Deputy Chief Minister. But both resigned on 26 November 2019 before the majority test. On 28 November 2019, Maha Vikas Aghadi of Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress came to power. After this there was a rebellion between Shiv Sena and NCP and 4 parties were formed. Sharad and Uddhav got the lead in the Lok Sabha elections. Assembly elections will be held in all this background.
Image Credit: (Divya-Bhaskar): Images/graphics belong to (Divya-Bhaskar).
