Mumbai, June 4 (UNI): With the Maha Vikas Aghadi (INDIA) crossing the 50 per cent mark in Maharashtra, the Congress and its allies have shown the way how to tackle the election machinery and outreach of BJP.
Maharashtra accounts for 48 Lok Sabha seats and is second to 80 seats of Uttar Pradesh. Uddhav Thackeray and Sharad Pawar also showed who commands the real Shiv Sena and NCP respectively.
Around 2 pm, the MVA was leading in 30 seats while the BJP-led Maha Yuti (NDA) was in 17 seats and independent in one. This is an impressive comeback for the Opposition as against the 2019 tally, where the Congress in alliance with the Nationalist Congress Party (prior to the breakup) won only five seats. The NDA, which consisted of the BJP and Shiv Sena, had won 41 of the 48 Lok Sabha seats.
Maharashtra saw many twists in the run-up to the Lok Sabha elections, including the split of the Nationalist Congress Party. Ajit Pawar broke away from his uncle and NCP supremo Sharad Pawar’s party and merged his side with the ruling Shinde Sena-BJP government. Not only that, he also pitted his wife Sunetra Pawar against his cousin and Sharad Pawar’s daughter Supriya Sule in Baramati.
According to trends, Supriya Sule, who is seeking re-election in Baramati, has edged past her sister-in-law.
