Samajwadi Party wants 12 Maha Vikas Aghadi seats for Maharashtra polls: Abu Azmi

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While talks on Maha Vikas Aghadi seat sharing are ongoing for the upcoming Maharashtra legislative elections, the Samajwadi Party has demanded 12 seats from the alliance. Speaking to ANI, Maharashtra Samajwadi Party chief Abu Azmi said his X post was not to express resentment but to remind the parties that time is passing.

Azmi said, “At present, only Congress, NCP-SCP and Shiv Sena (UBT) are holding meetings. Meetings with other smaller parties are still pending. I was reminding them through my tweet that it is getting very late .I had heard that the Congress was also going to announce something, so I told them to trust us. There is no resentment in this, I just wanted to remind you that relations between Rahul Gandhi and Akhilesh Yadav are also good.

“I am asking for 12 seats from the alliance. I will try to get that number of seats,” Abu Azmi added.

In a post on X on Wednesday, the SP leader posted on X and said that it would be wrong if any party announced a candidate without talking to the Samajwadi Party.

“In Maharashtra, if any party of Mahavikas Aghadi, be it the Congress, the Nationalist Congress Party (SP) or the Shiv Sena (UBT), releases the list of assembly candidates without talking to the Samajwadi Party or taking them into confidence , this means that they do not consider the Samajwadi Party as part of the Mahavikas Aghadi. It would be wrong for any party to announce candidates without talking to the Samajwadi Party Considering that the aim of the Mahavikas Aghadi is to keep all secular parties united and fight against the communal government. ” he said. he said.

“Under the circumstances, I would like to seek permission from our National President Akhilesh Yadav Ji that whatever the outcome of the legislative elections in Maharashtra – the Samajwadi Party would like to contest as many assembly seats as possible where it is strong,” he he added.

Akhilesh Yadav also stated that he hopes to get more seats from the alliance.

“I am going to Maharashtra tomorrow. Our effort will be to compete with the INDIA bloc. We asked for seats. We had 2 MLAs, we hope to get more seats,” the SP chief said.

Earlier today, Maharashtra Opposition Leader Vijay Wadettiwar said the doors of the alliance are not closed to the SP and all issues will be resolved within two days.

“No door of Maha Vikas Aghadi is closed for the Samajwadi Party. Our first discussion has taken place. We will have shared seats today and after discussing with them, we will resolve the issue in two days,” Wadettiwar said.

“In today’s meeting, we will discuss the allocation of seats to the Samajwadi Party. Just like the deal happened in UP with the Samajwadi Party, the same will happen in Maharashtra too,” he added.

Assembly elections in Maharashtra will be held in a single phase on November 20, the Election Commission of India announced on Tuesday (October 15, 2024). With this, political parties began to prepare for an election that will be unprecedented in many aspects.

In the 2019 Maharashtra Assembly polls, the Congress and the unified Shiv Sena won 154 out of 288 seats as part of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) coalition. However, this time, the Shiv Sena (UBT), Sharad Pawar’s NCP and the Congress are in alliance to counter the BJP-led Mahayuti alliance.

In the Lok Sabha elections held this year, the MVA won 30 of the state’s 48 Lok Sabha seats. The ruling alliance won 17. One seat went to an independent candidate.

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