Mumbai: With lower than 4 weeks to go for polling in Maharashtra, Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) stated Wednesday it has settled on a seat-sharing system that might permit every of the alliance’s three principal constituents to contest at the least 85 of the state’s 288 meeting seats.
Earlier within the day, the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) launched its first record of 65 candidates with occasion chief Sanjay Raut telling reporters the seat-sharing talks inside the MVA are “happening easily”.
“At this level what we will say is that the system is 85-85-85 the place we’re on similar web page; on the remainder of the seats, we will likely be beginning our talks with smaller allies just like the Left, PWP (Peasants and Employees Occasion of India), SP (Samajwadi Occasion), and so forth.,” stated Raut, a Rajya Sabha MP and shut confidant of occasion chief and former Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray.
On the primary record of candidates declared by Shiv Sena (UBT), Raut stated it “has some corrections”. “We’ll see what sort of corrections we will make. I don’t know what led to this administrative mistake. We’ll look into it.” He stated a number of the seats for which candidates had been declared could also be within the kitty of the PWP or the Nationalist Congress Occasion (Sharadchandra Pawar), including that discussions on these seats will proceed.
In its first record, the occasion rewarded many who caught with it throughout and after the 2022 break up, whereas additionally fielding some surprising picks from key seats.
As an example, Kedar Dighe has been pitted in opposition to Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde from Thane’s Kopri-Pachpakhadi seat. Kedar is the nephew of Shinde’s mentor and Sena’s as soon as strongman in Thane, Anand Dighe.
One other instance is that of Varun Sardesai, cousin of Shiv Sena (UBT) MLA and former state minister Aaditya Thackeray. An energetic employee of the Yuva Sena, youth wing of the Shiv Sena (UBT), Sardesai will contest his maiden election from Bandra East constituency, which elected Zeeshan Siddique of the Congress to the meeting in 2019.
Aaditya, in the meantime, will contest in opposition to Sandeep Deshpande of uncle Raj Thackeray’s Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) in a bid to retain his seat—Worli.
Equally, former MP Rajan Vichare who unsuccessfully contested the Lok Sabha polls earlier this yr, has been fielded from the Thane seat.
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