MVA partners seal pact for all 48 Lok Sabha seats in Maharashtra

New Delhi, March 1

The Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance of Maharashtra is reported to have agreed on a seat-sharing arrangement for all 48 seats in the state. While the Shiv Sena (UBT) will contest 20 seats, the Congress 18 seats and the Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party 10 seats.

Congress leaders Nana Falgunrao Patole, Prithviraj Chavan, Varsha Gaikwad, NCP (Sharad Pawar faction) leaders Jayant Patil, Jitendra Awhad and Anil Deshmukh, and Sena (UBT)’s Sanjay Raut and Vinayak Raut held a meeting in which the seat-sharing deal was reportedly finalised. Sanjay Raut, MP, and spokesperson for the Shiv Shena (UBT) faction, said no proposal had come forth from the Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi’s Prakash Ambedkar for a seat to Manoj Jarange Patil from Jalna.

Patil has emerged as the central point of the intense protests for Maratha reservations across the state that proved to be a big hurdle in the BJP-Eknath Shinde-Ajit Pawar government’s plans.

The BJP had won 23 LS seats, its then-alliance partner Shiv Sena (undivided) had bagged 18 and the undivided NCP had won four in 2019. The Congress and AIMIM had won one seat each and an independent had won in the last LS polls.