With less than a month until the first phase of the Lok Sabha Elections, the tug-of-war continues over seat sharing within the opposition MVA. Amid talks of seat negotiations, Shiv Sena UBT leader Sanjay Raut on Wednesday, which is also the last day of filing nominations for the first phase of Lok Sabha elections, tweeted a list written on a paper with Shiv Sena UBT letterhead on it.
हिंदूहृदयसम्राट शिवसेनाप्रमुख बाळासाहेब ठाकरे यांच्या आशीर्वादाने आणि शिवसेना पक्ष प्रमुख श्री.उद्धवजी ठाकरे यांच्या आदेशाने शिवसेनेच्या 17 लोकसभा उमेदवारांची यादी जाहीर करण्यास येत आहे..
*मुंबई दक्षिण मध्य:श्री अनिल देसाई यांच्या उमेदवारीची घोषणा करण्यात येत आहे.
इतर 16 उमेदवार… pic.twitter.com/nPg2RHimSF— Sanjay Raut (@rautsanjay61) March 27, 2024
Shri Anil Desai will be contesting from Mumbai South Central, and the names of the other 16 candidates are as follows.” The tweet read.
The list included the Sangli seat, which the Congress held from 1962 till 2014. During the Modi wave, BJP candidate Sanjaykaka Patil, the incumbent MP, won the seat. The Mumbai North West Lok Sabha seat has been given to Shinde Sena MP Gajanan Kirtikar’s son Amol Kirtikar, a seat Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam was seeking. The Mumbai South Central seat, which was not included in the list but in Mr Raut’s tweet, is also a seat that the Congress was eying.
Soon after this announcement, Congress legislative party leader Balasaheb Thorat, reacting to the list, expressed displeasure and said: “When discussions are going on in some places as Mahavikas Aghadi, it is the responsibility of all to follow the alliance Dharma.
महाविकास आघाडी म्हणून जेव्हा काही जागांवर चर्चा सुरू आहे, तेव्हा आघाडी धर्म पाळणे ही सर्वांची जबाबदारी आहे.
उद्धवजींनी आज शिवसेनेच्या उमेदवारांची यादी जाहीर केली. ज्यामध्ये सांगली आणि मुंबईतील ज्या जागांवर चर्चा सुरू होती, तेथील उमेदवारही जाहीर केले. जेव्हा आम्ही त्या प्रलंबित… pic.twitter.com/31BUINvn8Q
— Balasaheb Thorat (@bb_thorat) March 27, 2024
“Uddhavji announced the list of Shiv Sena candidates today. In which the candidates of the seats in Sangli and Mumbai where discussions were going on were also announced. While we are in discussion with reference to the pending seats, it is not appropriate to announce candidates from those seats even though Congress has a strong demand for those seats, which has not yet been resolved.” The Congress leader further said that time has not yet passed, and Shiv Sena should reconsider these seats.
Besides, in another jolt to the MVA, Prakash Ambedkar-led Vanchit Bahujan Ambedkar has severed ties with the MVA, announcing that the party will go solo in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections and announcing 8 candidates. Prakash Ambedkar will be contesting from the Akola seat he held earlier.
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