Lok Sabha elections 2024: Indian Prime Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Narendra Modi said on Wednesday that the Congress will “suffer a big defeat and find it difficult to even become an effective opposition party” in the Lok Sabha elections. Ta.
Speaking at an election rally in Dindori, Maharashtra, PM Modi claimed that Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena will merge with the Congress along with “all minor parties in Maharashtra”.
“It is certain that the ‘fake Shiv Sena’ and the ‘fake Nationalist Party’ will merge with the Congress. When this ‘fake Shiv Sena’ merges with the Congress, I will be most reminded of Bala Saheb Thackeray. Sho. Because Bala Saheb also used to say that the day he felt that Shiv Sena became Congress, that day he would end Shiv Sena. Now there will be no trace of the fake Shiv Sena,” PM Modi said.
Meanwhile, a local leader of Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena resigned in protest after he was denied a platform at a rally by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
said Arvind More, who oversees the party unit in Kalyan Murvad assembly constituency in Thane district. P.T.I. On Wednesday he announced he had resigned from the position.
In the fifth phase of the ongoing Lok Sabha elections, voting will be held in six constituencies in Mumbai, including North Mumbai, North West Mumbai, North East Mumbai, North Central Mumbai, South Mumbai and South Central Mumbai. ”
Other constituencies in Maharashtra that will be part of the ongoing elections in the fifth phase include Dhule, Dindori, Nashik, Kalyan, Palghar, Bhiwandi and Thane.
Maharashtra has 48 Lok Sabha seats, the second most after Uttar Pradesh.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP won 23 of the 25 seats contested, while the undivided Shiv Sena secured 18 of the 23 seats.
The undivided NCP, which is part of the opposition coalition, contested 19 seats and won four. After the Shiv Sena split in 2022, the Eknath Shinde faction aligned with the BJP.
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