‘Seat-sharing for Prakash Ambedkar’s party suspended’: Sharad Pawar

NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar) chief said the opposition group wanted Mr Ambedkar’s party to join.

Mumbai:

NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar) chief Sharad Pawar on Wednesday said the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) voters are in trouble over seat allocation in the Lok Sabha polls as leaders are waiting for the political group led by BR Ambedkar’s grandson Prakash Ambedkar to join the opposition group. Maharashtra.

Insisting that the alliance leaders recommended four to five Lok Sabha seats to the Prakash Ambedkar-led Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA), Pawar said the group had given produced a list of 16 constituencies that claimed to have good influence.

He was confident that the seat distribution among the MVA allies, which currently include the Congress, Shiv Sena (UBT) and NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar), would be completed in the next two to three days.

The MVA is part of India’s national opposition group.

Political analysts say that although the Ambedkar-led party did not win a single seat in the 2019 general elections, it secured a healthy 14% of the vote and hurt the Congress and the then-undivided National Congress Party in multiple elections. Candidate prospects in the constituency.

In Nanded, former Maharashtra chief minister and then Congress candidate Ashok Chavan lost by nearly 40,000 votes. Nanded’s VBA candidate has received over 100,000 votes.

Mr Ambedkar later criticized the Congress party for not accepting his offer to join forces with him to challenge the BJP.

For the past two weeks, Mr Ambedkar and his colleagues have been claiming that MVA leaders are delaying the finalization of the seat allocation formula for the state, which has 48 Lok Sabha constituencies, second only to Uttar Pradesh (80). Ranked second.

When asked about the matter, Mr. Pawar said: “We are waiting for Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi to come on board. We want them to come on board with us. Our seat-sharing scheme has been suspended for VBA.”

The former Union minister claimed that Mr Ambedkar had been talking about overthrowing the BJP-led government at the Centre.

“If there are any genuine complaints from the VBA, we are ready to record and resolve them. We are also ready to take any corrective action. There is a need to agree at the state level. Prakash Ambedkar always said that the Modi government should go .We agree with his line,” he said.

“We will finalize (seat sharing) in the next two to three days when the issues related to VBA are resolved,” the Bundestag MP said.

When asked about the number of constituencies required by the regional body, Mr. Pawar said: “Mr. Ambedkar has given a list of 16 seats where the VBA has good seats. The VBA has asked the MVA leaders where they can fill in these 16 seats How many seat constituencies are shared in the seats. We propose to give them four to five seats.”

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