Amid Sena UBT-Cong tussle over seats, MVA meet tomorrow to break stalemate

“There are nary disagreements wrong the Maha Vikas Aghadi. Discussions regarding spot allocation are ongoing and volition beryllium concluded soon. So far, discussions connected 96 seats for Congress person been completed. Tomorrow, further talks volition beryllium held with NCP (SP) president Sharad Pawar and Sena UBT main Uddhav Thackeray. After these discussions, we volition effort to denote the database of candidates time itself,” said Maharashtra Congress President Nana Patole.

On Sunday, the Congress cancelled its Central Election Committee (CEC) gathering to finalise candidates and urged the Maharashtra enactment to enactment enactment successful Delhi arsenic Sena (UBT) leaders huddled successful enactment main Uddhav Thackeray’s residence, Matoshree, successful Mumbai.

In a bid to unit the different side, representatives of some SS-UBT and Congress met Pawar seeking his intervention. Both parties person locked horns aft the Sena UBT sought seats from Vidarbha, which the Congress claimed were its strongholds.

On Monday, some the parties claimed determination were nary large differences betwixt them implicit the sharing of seats for Assembly elections. The 2 parties said the differences were constricted to a fistful of seats successful Vidarbha and these would beryllium ironed retired successful a time oregon two.

The Congress held its screening committee and CEC gathering for astir 57 assembly seats successful Delhi connected Monday. Sena UBT MP Sanjay Raut said determination were differences implicit 1 oregon 2 seats and added that a fewer sacrifices person to beryllium made successful the nationalist interest.

He expressed anticipation that the mode the Sena UBT had shown “large-heartedness” by giving up its 3 seats – Kolhapur, Amravati, and Ramtek – to Congress during the Lok Sabha polls, the second would reciprocate the motion successful Vidarbha for the Assembly polls.

“All of america person been successful authorities for years and each enactment feels that its idiosyncratic should beryllium fielded successful the polls. But successful an alliance… particularly during spot sharing, everyone has to marque a fewer sacrifices and instrumentality a fewer steps back,” the Sena UBT MP added.

Discarding immoderate anticipation of the Congress snapping its ties with the Shiv Sena (UBT), Leader of the Opposition Vijay Wadettiwar connected Monday termed the confederation arsenic beardown arsenic Fevicol.

“There has been a systematic effort by the BJP to interruption the Maha Vikas Aghadi and make confusion. We privation to asseverate that determination is perfectly nary 2nd thought astir contesting this predetermination arsenic the MVA and we volition contention this predetermination successful confederation with Sena (UBT),” Wadettiwar told reporters successful New Delhi.

Wadettiwar discarded the reports that Congress leaders had asked the enactment precocious bid to research options of going solo successful Maharashtra Assembly elections 2024.
“There is perfectly nary information successful reports that Congress leaders person asked to spell solo successful elections. We are going to combat successful an alliance. We person not said thing to our enactment astir going solo,” helium said.

The Congress person added, “MVA yeh Fevicol ka mazboot jod hai, yeh tutega nahi (MVA is simply a beardown enslaved joined by Fevicol. It won’t break).”