The ruling BJP-NCP-Shiv Sena alliance gained 230 of the 288 seats within the November 20 elections. (File)
Kolhapur:
NCP (SP) president Sharad Pawar on Saturday stated the Opposition shouldn’t lose coronary heart over its rout however return to the individuals who don’t appear to be enthused by the huge victory of the BJP-led Mahayuti within the Maharashtra elections.
The Opposition’s precedence could be to make sure that all of the election guarantees made by the ruling alliance together with growing the monetary help to girls below the Ladki Bahin scheme from Rs 1,500 to Rs 2,100 are carried out on the earliest, he stated.
Mr Pawar stated a comparability between votes polled and seats gained by political events within the Maharashtra meeting polls was shocking.
“It is true that we have now been defeated. We shouldn’t fret over it, however return to the folks, as no enthusiasm is seen among the many folks concerning the election outcomes. There is quite a lot of resentment,” the senior politician stated at a press convention right here.
The ruling BJP-NCP-Shiv Sena alliance gained 230 of the 288 seats within the November 20 elections.
The Opposition’s energy within the meeting is low however many younger Opposition MLAs will present their mettle after a few periods, Mr Pawar stated.
To a query on Samajwadi Party’s state chief Abu Asim Azmi asserting that his get together was pulling out of the Opposition’s Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance after the Shiv Sena (UBT) hailed, in a newspaper commercial, those that demolished the Babri Masjid, Mr Pawar sought to minimize the event.
The central management of the Akhilesh Yadav-led get together was of the agency view that the Opposition’s unity is important, he stated.
Opposition events can’t demand {that a} Leader of Opposition should be appointed as they don’t have the required numbers, Mr Pawar stated.
None of the Opposition events, together with Mr Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (SP), Congress or Sena (UBT) individually have the minimal 29 MLAs — ten per cent of the Assembly’s energy — to be eligible to get the submit.
Mr Pawar, nevertheless, famous that within the Nineteen Eighties, when his personal get together was decreased to simply six MLAs following defections, he nonetheless turned the Leader of the Opposition for a yr adopted by Mrinal Gore and Nihal Ahmed because the Opposition determined to rotate the submit.
To a query concerning the row over a wad of Rs 500 notes being discovered within the Rajya Sabha, Mr Pawar, himself a member of the Upper House, stated there needs to be a probe as to how the bundle made its technique to the seat of an MP (Congress’ Abhishek Manu Singhvi) who’s a longtime and famend lawyer.
Mr Pawar stated the comparability between votes polled and seats gained by political events in Maharashtra meeting polls was shocking.
“Congress polled 80 lakh votes and gained 15 seats whereas Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena bagged 79 lakh votes and emerged victorious on 57 seats,” he stated.
Ajit Pawar’s NCP polled 58 lakh votes and gained 41 seats, whereas the NCP (SP) secured 72 lakh votes and gained solely 10 seats, he stated.
Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said that as a senior chief, Sharad Pawar should not mislead the nation.
“You will come out of this when you settle for defeat. I anticipate you to present your colleagues recommendation on introspection,” he said on X.
Mr Fadnavis stated the BJP polled 1,49,13,914 votes and bagged 9 seats in Maharashtra within the Lok Sabha elections, whereas Congress polled 96,41,856 votes and bagged 13 seats.
Shiv Sena (UBT) bought 73,77,674 votes and gained 7 seats whereas NCP (SP) polled 58,51,166 votes and gained 8 constituencies, he stated.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Congress polled 87,92,237 votes and gained just one seat whereas the undivided NCP secured 83,87,363 votes however gained 4 seats, he added.
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