Maharashtra Assembly Elections 2024: State to vote on November 20, counting on November 23

With the elections being announced, some the Mahayuti and the MVA are apt to hurry to upwind up their seat-sharing talks and get astatine a consensus.

The BJP is acceptable to stay the ascendant enactment successful the three-party Mahayuti confederation with the enactment already deciding to contention 160 of the 288 Assembly seats. “So far, the Mahayuti has finalised 240 seats and a determination connected 48 seats remains to beryllium taken,” a BJP spokesperson said. “The remaining seats volition beryllium shared by the Shiv Sena led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP),” the spokesperson added. The Shinde Sena is apt to contention much seats than Ajit Pawar’s NCP.

The MVA has decided connected 225 seats. “Our discussions connected the remaining seats are underway and volition beryllium finalised successful a mates of days,” Maharashtra Congress main spokesperson Atul Londhe told The Indian Express.

Former main curate and elder Congress person Prithviraj Chavan said nary enactment has claimed the highest fig of seats truthful far. “Though we person finalised 225 seats, arsenic of now, we cannot accidental who volition get the highest fig of seats. There are debates and discussions connected each seat. Only erstwhile we adhd up each seats volition we cognize who volition get the maximum,” Chavan added.

In the 2019 Assembly elections, the BJP and the undivided Shiv Sena had contested unneurotic portion the Congress and the undivided NCP were successful alliance. The BJP had emerged with the highest fig of seats, 105, portion the Shiv Sena had emerged 2nd with 56 seats. The NCP and Congress were placed 3rd and fourth, respectively.

However, the BJP-Shiv Sena confederation fell isolated implicit the contented of main ministership. While the Shiv Sena said the BJP had promised to springiness it the main minister’s post, the BJP denied this.

The Shiv Sena led by Uddhav Thackeray past allied with the Congress and the NCP to signifier the MVA government. Two and a fractional years later, successful June 2022, the BJP brought down the authorities by causing a divided successful Shiv Sena. A radical of 40 MLAs led by Shinde joined hands to signifier the authorities with BJP. Subsequently, the BJP caused a divided successful the NCP and a radical of astir 40 MLAs led by Ajit Pawar joined hands with the BJP-Sena authorities to signifier the Mahayuti government, which has been successful powerfulness since.

However, the Mahayuti authorities received a assemblage stroke during the Lok Sabha elections by winning lone 17 seats portion the MVA bagged 30 retired of the 48 seats successful the state. The dismal amusement sent tremors successful the Mahayuti, which has gone each retired to woo voters by announcing a slew of payment measures and approving respective improvement projects earlier the predetermination announcement.