Senior leaders of Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena have said the party should get the right to contest at least 100 of the 288 seats in the Maharashtra Assembly.
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Press Trust of India Mumbai
Senior leaders of Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena have said the party should get the right to contest at least 100 of the 288 seats in the Maharashtra Assembly.
The Shiv Sena is part of the Mahayuti alliance that also includes the BJP and Ajit Pawar-led NCP.
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Assembly elections are due to be held in the state in October.
“We will win 100 seats and of these we will definitely win 90,” former state minister Ramdas Kadam said at the 58th founding anniversary celebrations of the united Shiv Sena organised by the Sindhes at the NSCI premises on Wednesday.
Notably, Maharashtra minister and NCP leader Chhagan Bhujbal recently said that the party needs to win 80-90 seats in the state assembly elections.
Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis then said the BJP is the largest party and will contest many more seats in the state elections.
However, the seat allocation formula will be finalised only after leaders of the three parties meet and hold discussions, Fadnavis said.
In the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections, the ruling Maha Yuthi Party won 17 of the state’s 48 seats. The BJP won nine, the Shiv Sena seven and the NCP one.
The opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi, comprising the Indian National Congress, Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena (UBT) and Sharad Pawar’s National Socialist Party (SP), won 30 seats.
