"Congress Will...": Piyush Goyal's Prediction For Maharashtra Election
NDTV
The 2024 Maharashtra election will be held in a single phase on November 20 and the results for all 288 seats will be announced three days later, with those for the two-phase Jharkhand poll.
The Congress will be the "worst-performing" opposition party in next week's Maharashtra Assembly election, Union Minister Piyush Goyal declared to NDTV Friday, pointing to what he claimed were rifts within its state unit and with its leadership in Delhi.
"I think the Congress is in the worst situation... local leadership is crestfallen. It had high hopes of being the dominant partner (in the Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance) but I believe there is friction within the party and within the centre and state units, and they are all a very unhappy lot."
"My own sese is that among the opposition (including the Shiv Sena and NCP factions led by Uddhav Thackeray and Sharad Pawar), the worst-performing will be the Congress," he said.
