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Congress wants to contest elections on three out of six Lok Sabha seats in Mumbai. On the other hand, Uddhav Thackeray also wants four seats in Mumbai.
Amidst Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi spoke to Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Uddhav Thackeray, who is part of INDIA, regarding seat sharing in Maharashtra. Rahul called Uddhav on Thursday (February 22) and talked for about an hour.
There are total 48 Lok Sabha seats in Maharashtra. In the state, Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena, Sharad Pawar’s NCP and Congress are together under the Mahavikas Aghadi Alliance. An agreement has been reached on 40% between the three parties. The matter is stuck on 8 seats.
Of these, six seats are from Mumbai. If sources are to be believed, Congress wants to contest elections on three out of six Lok Sabha seats in Mumbai. This includes Mumbai South Central, Mumbai North Central and Mumbai North West.
However, Uddhav Thackeray wants to contest elections on a total of 18 seats, of which four are from Mumbai. These include Mumbai South, Mumbai North West, Mumbai North East and Mumbai South Central.
Shiv Sena (then undivided) had contested 22 out of 48 seats in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Of these, he won 18, which included three seats in Mumbai.
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Elections were also held for 288 assembly seats in Maharashtra in 2019. Then Shiv Sena and BJP were in alliance. BJP became the largest party in the state with 106 MLAs. Shiv Sena won 56 seats. After this, Shiv Sena tried the CM formula for two and a half years, but BJP did not agree.
Due to this, just a few months after the assembly elections, Uddhav broke the 25-year-old alliance with BJP. Shiv Sena along with Congress with 44 MLAs and NCP with 53 MLAs formed the Mahavikas Aghadi alliance and formed the government, Uddhav Thackeray became the CM.
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