“Asking For 12 Seats From MVA”: SP MLA Abu Azmi

Akhilesh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party’s Maharashtra unit has demanded 12 seats from the opposition MVA. Speaking to news agency ANI, Samajwadi Party Maharashtra Chief Abu Azmi said that his post on X was not to express resentment but to remind the parties that the time is running away.

“In Maharashtra, if any party of Mahavikas Aghadi, be it Congress, Nationalist Congress Party (SP), or Shiv Sena (UBT), releases the list of assembly candidates without talking to Samajwadi Party or taking them into confidence, it means that they do not consider Samajwadi Party as a part of Mahavikas Aghadi, Azmi said in an X post on Wednesday.”

He further said: “It would be wrong for any party to announce candidates without talking to Samajwadi Party. Whereas the objective of Mahavikas Aghadi is to keep all secular parties together and fight against the communal government. In these circumstances, I would like to take permission from our National President, Hon. Shri Akhilesh Yadav Ji, that whatever the result of the assembly elections in Maharashtra – the Samajwadi Party would like to contest as many seats as possible in the assemblies where is strong.”

महाराष्ट्र में यदि महाविकास अघाड़ी का कोई भी पक्ष चाहे वो कांग्रेस हो, राष्ट्रवादी कांग्रेस (एस.पि.), या शिवसेना (उबाठा) हो, वो बिना समाजवादी पार्टी से बात किए या बिना विश्वास में लेते हुए – विधानसभा के उम्मीदवारों की सूचि जारी करते है, इसका मतलब है की वह समाजवादी पार्टी को…

— Abu Asim Azmi (@abuasimazmi) October 16, 2024

Azmi speaking to ANI further 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 Congress was going to announce something too, so I had told them to take us into confidence. There is no resentment in this, I just wanted to remind that the 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 many seats,” Abu Azmi added further.

Earlier in the day, Maharashtra Leader of Opposition and senior Congress leader Vijay Wadettiwar said that the doors of the alliance are not closed for the SP and all the problems will be solved within two days.