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FOR THE first time, the Lok Sabha elections for its 48 seats will be held across five phases in Maharashtra, spread out between April 19 and May 20. The Opposition believes this elongated schedule is only meant to give the BJP, with its better resources, organisational strength and unflagging election machinery, an advantage.
Twenty-four hours after the Lok Sabha election schedule was announced, Mumbai became the site of the battleground between INDIA versus the NDA as Rahul Gandhi wrapped up his Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra.
As the Congress announced its second list of candidates on Tuesday, there were no names from Maharashtra. With the Lok Sabha poll schedule expected to be announced in a few days, the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) is still struggling to wrap up seat-sharing allegedly because of a lack of coordination between the Congress and the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray).
AFTER THE intervention of Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who held meetings late into Tuesday and early Wednesday, the BJP appears to have worked out a seat-sharing formula for Maharashtra. Sources said that the BJP is likely to contest 32 of the 48 seats in the state as per the deal, with the Shinde Shiv Sena fighting 11 and the NCP (Ajit Pawar) 5 seats.
Amid reports of bickering in Maharashtra among the ruling NDA partners over seat-sharing besides internal differences within the BJP, Union Home Minister Amit Shah will arrive in the state Tuesday in a bid to resolve these issues, especially those related to Vidarbha, Marathwada and North Maharashtra.
Manoj Jarange-Patil, a possible drought, and allies pushing for more seats. Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, these factors are seemingly not making it easy for the BJP in Marathwada, a region that the party swept in the 2019 polls in alliance with the undivided Shiv Sena.
Former Lok Sabha Speaker and Maharashtra Chief Minister Manohar Joshi, the first CM to lead a non-Congress government, breathed his last at a Mumbai hospital at 3 am on Friday. He was 86.
Seat-sharing talks in the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) have stalled over eight of the 48 Lok Sabha constituencies in the state. Despite several meetings and claims, the Opposition alliance’s members who are part of the INDIA alliance nationally have not yet been able to settle on a seat-sharing arrangement for these seats.