Maharashtra’s Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi is seemingly near finalising the small print of seat sharing for subsequent month’s meeting elections. A key assembly is being held immediately, attended by senior leaders from either side.
The Congress and Uddhav Thackeray faction of Shiv Sena, who had been going through a impasse over a handful of seats in Mumbai, Nashik and Vidarbha, are hoping to barter for a means out with the great places of work of veteran chief Sharad Pawar, the chief of Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) and the transferring power behind the three-party alliance since its inception.
With his intervention, the state leaders of the Congress and the Shiv Sena UBT had come again to the drafting board, reviews stated.
Since morning, hectic rounds of conferences are being held — one of many first being between Congress’s Balasaheb Thorat and Mr Pawar.
Another spherical of assembly has been held within the morning between the Sena UBT and the Congress. A second spherical is in progress.
Depending on its conclusions, an announcement is probably going throughout the subsequent couple of days, stated Congress’s state chief Nana Patole.
Yesterday, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Sanjay Raut had stated that the MVA had reached a consensus on 210 out of 288 meeting seats, whereas Nana Patole claimed the determine was 96.
The two events have been bargaining for days as Mr Patole held out for 125 seats whereas the Sena (UBT) pushing for 100 seats every for it and the Congress, and 88 for Sharad Pawar’s social gathering.
Then got here the difficulty that has been on the coronary heart of the Congress grouse – “Whichever social gathering is robust and meritorious will struggle within the respective constituency”.
This is the rationale why the Congress is holding out for the eight seats in Vidarbha that Mr Thackeray’s social gathering desires. Senior Sena chief Sanjay Raut has stated whereas there isn’t any doubt concerning the Congress having a powerful base in Vidarbha, “we additionally had 4-5 MPs from there”.
“If we additionally get 1 or 2 seats, then there isn’t any hurt in it,” he has stated.
Elections for the 288-member Maharashtra meeting will probably be held on November 20, and votes will probably be counted on November 23. The time period of the present meeting will finish on November 26.