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The state president Jayant Patil on Wednesday said that the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) constituents should stay away from naming a CM candidate ahead of the Maharashtra Assembly Elections and instead focus on returning to power in the state, reported the PTI. Jayant Patil also said that no MVA ally should (unilaterally) declare the number of seats it is contesting as winnability will be the only criteria in the upcoming polls. ADVERTISEMENT The MVA, an alliance of Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar), Shiv Sena (UBT) and Congress, was in power in the state from November 2019.
However, it collapsed in June 2022 after the Shiv Sena split following a rebellion led by Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde. Of the three MVA allies, the NCP (SP) has clocked 80 per cent strike rate in the Lok Sabha elections by winning eight out of 10 seats it contested. Jayant Patil was present in the city to attend party-related programmes and meetings.
"The Maha Vikas Aghadi constituents should stay away from naming anyone as the chief minister (candidate). Instead, their priority should be returning to power. There should be no competition among the alliance members to avoid a gap," the former state minister said, according to the PTI.
On seat-sharing in the MVA for the assembly polls, he said the allies planned to hold a meeting on June 25, but Congress also had a meeting that day, so a new date will be finalised. "There is no need to declare (unilaterally) the number of seats that the parties .
