Mumbai: The Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) on Wednesday announced a seat-sharing agreement for Maharashtra polls.
Addressing a press conference, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut said that Congress, Shiv Sena (UBT) & NCP (Shara Pawar) would contest 85 seats each in Maharashtra polls.
Meanwhile, Shiv Sena (UBT) also issued its first list of 65 candidates for the state polls scheduled to be held on November 20.
Nana Patole
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Maharashtra Congress President Nana Patole, who was also present in the press conference, announced that talks with alliance parties, including the Samajwadi Party, regarding the remaining seats would be completed by Thursday.
Shiv Sena's Anil Desai said: "Remaining seats will be given to small friendly parties after some discussion." "Whatever remains will be divided among us," he added.
The state will go to polls on November 20 while the outcome of the elections will be announced on November 23.
2019 Assembly election
In the 2019 Maharashtra Assembly election, the BJP and then united Shiv Sena contested as allies under the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), while the Congress and then united Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) fought the polls together.
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The NDA alliance won 161 seats (BJP 105, Shiv Sena 56) while the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) could win 98 seats (NCP 54 & Congress 44).
Owing to disagreements over Chief Minister post, Shiv Sena parted ways with NDA and formed a post-poll allianace with Sharad Pawar's NCP and Congress. On June 29, 2022, Uddhav Thackeray resigned as Chief Minister following a split in the party.
