Congress state president Nana Patole said on Monday that the first list of the Congress for the Maharashtra assembly elections will be announced on Tuesday.
Maharashtra Mahavikas Aghadi (Congress-Shiv Sena Uddhav and NCP Sharad Pawar) meeting will be held in Mumbai today. In this all 288 assembly seat sharing of Maharashtra will be finalized.
On Monday, Shiv Sena (UBT) Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut said that the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) has agreed on 210 out of 288 assembly seats. We will fight the election as a force and defeat the looters of Maharashtra. MVA consists of Shiv Sena (UBT), Congress and Sharad Pawar's NCP (SP).
Raut's statement came at a time when Uddhav Thackeray's party was in talks to split from the MVA. It is being said that the party can single-handedly contest all 288 seats. Over the past few days, there have been reports of a rift between the Congress and the Shiv Sena (UBT), along with talks on seat sharing in the MVA.
Leader of Opposition in Maharashtra Legislative Assembly and leader of Congress Vijay Vadettiwar said on Monday –
17 MVA seats are still up for debate. We are in dispute with the Thackeray group on some seats. There are three parties in the coalition. Distribution of seats among the three parties takes time.
It is believed that Uddhav's party and Congress are staking their claims on seven seats in Vidarbha. Meanwhile, Congress state president Nana Patole said on Monday that the first list of Congress candidates will be announced tomorrow (October 22).
There are also speculations that the Shiv Sena (UBT)-BJP will contest the election together
A few days ago, Home Minister Amit Shah also spoke to Sanjay Raut on phone. After this, there are also speculations that Shiv Sena (UBT) and BJP will contest the election together. After the 2019 assembly elections, the two parties broke the alliance.
At that time, the undivided Shiv Sena accused the BJP of not keeping its promise of giving the post of chief minister. Whereas, BJP has always denied any such agreement.
When asked about the phone conversation, Raut said – BJP is spreading false news. They are afraid of defeat, that is why fake news is being spread. BJP toppled Shiv Sena, toppled Uddhav Thackeray's government. He ensured that the party name and election symbol got to the Shinde group. The worst thing BJP did was to hand over the reins of government to traitors. Since then they are looting Maharashtra.
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 Maharashtra 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.
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