MVA failed in seat-sharing, cooperation and coordination, SP’s Abu Azmi says after Maharashtra poll results

Your opponents levelled antithetic charges against you, claiming that the cause menace and transgression rates are connected the emergence due to the fact that of you.

Abu Azmi: The idiosyncratic who was removed from the furniture owed to corruption, sent to jailhouse for onshore grabbing, and whose household members were arrested successful a narcotics lawsuit is levelling charges against me. This was publicised truthful overmuch done the media that voters got distracted and thought I was liable for the rising cause menace. In fact, I person worked hard to combat against the cause menace. I raised this contented successful the Assembly respective times, aft which the location curate created a peculiar squad to curb narcotics use. But my opponents made this the speech of the town. In fact, wherever my hostile lives, that country has the astir important cause intake issue.

What was the differentiating origin that led to your win?

Abu Azmi: I person worked precise hard successful the past 3 terms. The radical from this constituency person seen that and person elected maine arsenic their representative. If determination had not been truthful galore Muslim candidates, I would person won by a borderline of implicit 40,000 votes. My opponents distributed a batch of currency to undermine maine successful the slum areas.

Do you deliberation the Mahayuti confederation is stronger than the Maha Vikas Aghadi?

Abu Azmi: Looking astatine the numbers, astatine this point, I consciousness the Mahayuti confederation is stronger than the MVA.

If the MVA had projected a main curate face, bash you deliberation it would person won much seats?

Abu Azmi: Leaders from the MVA kept warring for seats and did not deliberation astir however to support everyone agreed and determination forward. The MVA has failed successful seat-sharing, cooperation, and coordination. That is the biggest drawback successful their alliance. The Samajwadi Party won 2 seats successful this Assembly election, and if the Congress and different parties from the confederation had supported us, we could person won much seats. With the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation elections coming up, Uddhavji, Sharad Pawar, and Congress leaders should clasp a gathering and determine what to bash next.