Maharashtra Assembly Elections 2024: SP leader Sharad Pawar has expressed confidence that the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) will make a comeback in the crucial Maharashtra Assembly elections due later this year. Capitalising on the MVA’s victory in the Maharashtra Lok Sabha elections, SP leader Sharad Pawar has said that the SP will return to power in the Maharashtra Lok Sabha elections.
The MVA, comprising splinter factions of the NCP and Shiv Sena (UBT), seems to have won the trust of the Maharashtra voters after a tumultuous political phase in the last five years, which was evident in the Lok Sabha elections.
Sharad Pawar on Wednesday said the NCP would resolve the farmers’ issues in Maharashtra if it returns to power. Analysts, in particular, have blamed the defeat of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena and the Ajit Pawar faction of the NCP in the Lok Sabha elections on anger among the farmer voter base.
Sharad Pawar made these remarks while interacting with farmers of Nila Wagahji village in Baramati upazila of Pune district.
“Both the governments (Central and state) are not governed by us. But the (state) elections are around the corner. We have seen how the work was done in the Lok Sabha elections. If a similar work is repeated in the state assembly elections, there is no way that the reins of the state government will not be in our hands,” Sharad Pawar said.
“All the farmers’ problems can be resolved if the state government’s powers are in our hands,” he added.
Sharad Pawar expressed concern over the pollution of Nira River in Pune and blamed sugar mills for the pollution, highlighting their major contribution to polluting the river. Pawar announced plans to enter into discussions with the state and central governments to effectively address the issue.
Maharashtra Assembly Elections 2024: Results
In the recent elections to the 48-seat Lower House of the Maharashtra Assembly, the Indian National Congress won 13 seats, a jump from the one it won in the state in 2019. The Shiv Sena (UBT) won nine seats and the NCP (SP) won eight.
In the seat-sharing arrangement for the general elections, Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena (UBT) won the largest number of seats among the three parties with 21 seats, followed by the BJP with 17 and the SSP with 10.
(With input from relevant agencies)
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