Starting the process of reviewing election-preparedness of all State units ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, the Congress on July 11 announced that it will contest the election in Maharashtra as part of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance.
With 48 Lok Sabha seats, Maharashtra is second only to Uttar Pradesh in terms of strength in the House of the People in Parliament.
The review held in Maharashtra came barely a week after the split in the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), a constituent of the MVA along with the Congress and the Uddhav Thaceray-led Shiv Sena faction.