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New Delhi: Maharashtra’s Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) members on Tuesday agreed on seat sharing for the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections. A meeting of MVA alliance members – the Congress, the Shiv Sena (UBT) and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP – Sharad Pawar Faction) – was held in New Delhi.
Notably, there are 48 Lok Sabha seats in Maharashtra. After the meeting, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut said that the MVA members agreed on seat-sharing.
“All of the members of Maha Vikas Aghadi came out of the meeting smiling. It means that Maha Vikas Aghadi members- Shiv Sena, Congress and NCP, sat down to discuss seat-sharing and we agreed on most points,” Raut said.
“I want to assure everyone that we will fight elections together. We have no qualms about seat sharing,” Raut added.
Sanjay Raut’s statement:
The meeting was held at the residence of Congress’ Mukul Wasnik in New Delhi. The meeting went on for almost three hours.
Senior Congress leader Ramesh Chennithala said people are with Shiv Sena (UBT) and Sharad Pawar’s NCP. “We will be the first state to announce seats… The Shiv Sena May have spilt, but the people are with the Uddhav faction and the same with the NCP… We will be together for the elections,” Chennithala told NDTV.
Notably, the Congress is also in talks for seat-sharing with regional parties in other states, including Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.
In June 2022, Eknath Shinde revolted against the them CM of Maharashtra, Uddhav Thackeray. Shinde along with 39 Shiv Sena MLAs joined hands with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Shinde was sworn in as the CM of Maharashtra, while former CM Devendra Fadnavis was appointed as Shinde’s deputy. In February last year, the Shiv Sena’s “bow and Arrow” symbol was alloted to the Shinde faction by the Election Commission.
The NCP also witnessed a split in July last year, when Ajit Pawar joined hands with the Shinde government. He was made the Deputy CM of the state.
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