‘Mahayuti alliance has no confusion on seat sharing’: Ajit Pawar

Ajit Pawar says ‘there is no confusion’ in Mahayutthir alliance over seat-sharing (File)

Pune (Maharashtra):

Nationalist Congress Party leader and deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar said on Tuesday that Mahayut’s seat allocation plan has been basically finalized and an announcement in this regard will be made on March 28.

Ajit Pawar said there was “no confusion” in Mahayut’s alliance on the issue of seat sharing.

“There was no confusion among Mahayutthi. We sat together and decided to share the seats. The BJP and the Shiv Sena worked with us to decide the seats. 90 per cent of the decisions have been taken. On March 28, all announcements were made A press conference will be held “jointly with the BJP and Shiv Sena. Mahayuthy will contest from all 48 seats,” Ajit Pawar told a press conference.

Ajit Pawar also revealed that NCP state president Sunil Tatkare will contest from the Raigad Lok Sabha seat.

Mahayurti is an alliance of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena and Maharashtra’s Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP).
Maharashtra will vote in 48 constituencies in five phases in the general election.

In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP won 23 of the 25 contested seats, while the undivided Shiv Sena won 18 of the 23 seats.

The Undivided National Congress Party, part of the opposition alliance, contested 19 seats and won four.

Post-2022 split, the Shiv Sena, which earlier formed a coalition government with the Congress and the NCP, sees Eknath Shinde aligning with the BJP.

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