Mumbai: Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Friday said the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi allies have worked out the sharing formula for 210 of the 288 assembly seats in Maharashtra.
The alliance, which comprises the Uddhav Thackeray-led party, Congress, and NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar), will declare these seats soon, he told reporters here.
“Meetings are over. We met (NCP-SP chief) Sharad Pawar on Thursday. Agreement has been reached on 210 seats. We will declare these seats. Our list is ready,” Raut said.
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Taking a swipe at the BJP over its victory in the Haryana assembly elections, Raut said the saffron party “should introspect on how it won.” “It should share the formula, like the EVM,” he said, referring to the allegations of Opposition parties that the voting machines could be tampered with.
Congress lost in Haryana by a margin of only 0.6 per cent, and the evidence furnished by Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi about irregularities in the EVMs should be considered seriously, Raut said.
MVA Seat-Sharing Talks Almost Complete: Maharashtra Congress Chief
Seat-sharing talks of the Opposition’s Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) are almost complete, Maharashtra Congress president Nana Patole said here on Wednesday.
Elections to the state assembly are expected to be held next month. The MVA alliance comprises the Congress, Shiv Sena (UBT) and NCP (SP).
“We are meeting again on October 11. We have completed discussions for all 288 seats. There is no dispute,” Patole told reporters emerging from the meeting of alliance leaders at the YB Chavan Centre in south Mumbai.
“We are deliberating on how to rid the state of the present corrupt, anti-Maharashtra and anti-farmer government,” he added.
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