The major candidate from the ShivSena camp will be chief Uddhav Thackeray’s son Aaditya Thackeray. He is the first Thackeray to contest an election.
Mumbai: The Bharatiya Janata Party has announced its first list of candidates, the ShivSena has also released its first list of 124 seats that it will be contesting the 2019 Maharashtra assembly elections.
Currently, BJP has announced the name of candidates for 125 seats, the ShivSena merely released a list of the constituencies it will be contesting without mentioning candidate names.
Though the ShivSena has issued ‘AB’ form to its sitting MLAs as well as to some candidates, no major leader has submitted a nomination so far.
ShivSena’s first list was essentially meant to indicate the numeric division of seats between the BJP and the Sena. Yesterday the two saffron parties had announced that they would be contesting the Maharashtra elections but had not announced the quantum of seats.
On Tuesday’s announcement, the division of the NDA alliance in the 288-seat Maharashtra assembly elections will be 125 seats for BJP, 124 seats for Shiv Sena and the remaining 39 seats for smaller partners like Republican Party of India. Along with the 124 seats, the ShivSena will also get two MLC seats from the BJP quota.
The present reports suggest that the Sena and the BJP would fight an equal number of seats for the 288-member House and leave a fraction for smaller allies, the seat-sharing talks remained uneasy with no agreement on the formula for long.
The BJP wanted a bigger share, on the back of its spectacular performance in the April-May Lok Sabha polls but the Sena was not willing to play ball, said sources from both parties.
The major candidate from the ShivSena camp will be chief Uddhav Thackeray’s son Aaditya Thackeray. Aaditya Thackeray is the first Thackeray to contest an election. On Monday he said that he will contest the Worli assembly segment in Mumbai.
In the 2014 Assembly elections, the BJP and the Sena had contested separately over a dispute over sharing of seats. The BJP won a maximum of 122 out of 260 seats it had contested while the Sena bagged 63 out of 282 seats.
In the last assembly elections BJP formed the government in October 2014, the Sena joined it in December the same year.
On October 21Maharashtra will go to polls and the results will be declared on October 24.
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