The India alliance has faced many setbacks in recent times. However, now news of relief has also started emerging.
Recently, an agreement was reached between Akhilesh Yadav’s party SP and Congress regarding seat sharing. After this, Rahul Gandhi has spoken to Uddhav Thackeray to finalize seat sharing in Maharashtra. There was a long conversation between the two on the phone.
Let us tell you that there are total 48 Lok Sabha seats in Maharashtra. Maharashtra is very important for both NDA and India.
Perhaps this is the reason why Rahul Gandhi talked to the Shiv Sena (UBT) leader for about an hour during the Bharat Jodo Nyaya Yatra.
Congress adamant on four seats in Mumbai
Sources say that Congress wants to contest elections on three of the six Lok Sabha seats in Mumbai (Mumbai South Central, Mumbai North Central and Mumbai North West).
At the same time, Uddhav Thackeray wants to contest elections on 18 Lok Sabha seats in the state. He also has claim on four seats in Mumbai (Mumbai South, Mumbai North West, Mumbai North East and Mumbai South Central).
Let us tell you that Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena considers Mumbai as its stronghold, although the picture after the split in Shiv Sena is not clear yet.
Trouble stuck on these 8 seats
The tussle over seat sharing continues between Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena, Sharad Pawar’s NCP (Sharad Pawar) and Congress’s Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance.
According to sources, talks have been completed on 40 seats. However, there is a dilemma on eight seats. Let us tell you that in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Shiv Sena had contested the elections in alliance with BJP. In that 18 seats were won.
broken all turns
Many important political incidents have been witnessed in Maharashtra in recent years. Shiv Sena split under the leadership of Eknath Shinde. After this, Sharad Pawar’s nephew Ajit Pawar also rebelled and joined the government. Now his claim on NCP has also been accepted as valid.
At the same time, Congress also suffered two big setbacks in Maharashtra. Former chief ministers Ashok Chavan and Milind Deora resigned from the party. Amidst all this, talks on seat sharing kept getting delayed.
Sources say that after the recent stampede in Congress, Uddhav Thackeray’s party wants a bigger share in the seats in Mumbai. However, sources have also said that Uddhav Thackeray, Sharad Pawar, Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge are all trying to bring it to fruition.