Sharad Pawar pitches for MVA allies to contest Maharashtra Assembly and Lok Sabha polls together
The Hindu
The NCP chief had last year also said the MVA allies should fight the Maharashtra Assembly elections together
Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar on January 8 pitched for contesting the 2024 Maharashtra Assembly and the Lok Sabha polls together with the Uddhav Thackeray faction of the Shiv Sena and Congress.
Talking to reporters, he claimed that despite a split in the Shiv Sena, the majority of the “hardcore” Shiv Sainiks who work on the ground stand behind Uddhav Thackeray.
Mr. Pawar said MLAs and MPs may have aligned with the Eknath Shinde faction of the Shiv Sena after the split, but when polls take place, they will also know what the views of people are.
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After the 2019 Maharashtra Assembly elections, Mr. Thackeray had snapped ties with long-term ally Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and tied-up with the NCP and Congress to form the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government in the State.
The Thackeray Government collapsed in June last year after a revolt led by Mr. Shinde against the Sena leadership.
To a query on the issue of the alliance, Mr. Pawar said, “The understanding is that the Congress, NCP and Uddhav Thackeray should work together [for the Lok Sabha and Maharashtra polls]. The Republican Party and some groups should be included. But we are having discussions. We take decisions jointly on many issues, so there should not be any problem in this."
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