Continuing to maintain an ambivalent stance towards forging an alliance with the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi, Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA) president Prakash Ambedkar on Saturday said his party would announce its decision on March 26 on whether it would contest the Lok Sabha election independently or go along with the MVA.
Mr. Ambedkar again claimed that the MVA parties (which include Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena UBT, the Congress, and Sharad Pawar’s NCP-SP) had yet to resolve their seat-sharing problems and that it was wrong to point fingers at the VBA for acting as a roadblock in seat-sharing discussions.
“If their [MVA’s] seat-sharing problems are not resolved as yet, then what is the point in us making an entry in the MVA. We will wait for two more days, till March 26, to see whether the deadlock between the MVA parties on the 15 Lok Sabha seats is solved. We will then announce our decision,” the VBA chief, who is the grandson of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, said.
