Leaders attending CEC Congress meeting
A meeting of the Congress Central Election Committee (CEC) on the Maharashtra Assembly elections was held in Delhi. In this meeting the remaining seats of Maharashtra were discussed. Sources say the second list of congressional candidates could be released on Friday night or Saturday. Voting will be held in 288 Maharashtra assembly seats in a single phase on November 20.
The Congress on Thursday released the first list of 48 candidates for the Maharashtra Assembly elections, which included the names of State Congress Committee president Nana Patole, former Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, the opposition leader in Assembly, Vijay Wadettiwar, and many other senior leaders.
Regarding the meeting, AICC activist and Congress leader Ramesh Chenithalla said that an online meeting will be held tomorrow. After this, the full list will arrive tomorrow afternoon. There is no difference in MVM. The full list will arrive tomorrow.
A final agreement on seats has not yet been reached
After several days of deadlock, the MVA on Wednesday announced the seat-sharing formula for elections to the 288-member state assembly. Under this, it was announced that Shiv Sena (UBT), Congress and NCP’s Sharad Pawar faction will contest on 85 seats each, while discussions are still going on to seal the final deal.
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi, organization general secretary KC Venugopal, state in-charge Ramesh Chennithala, state Congress Committee president Nana Patole and some other senior leaders of Maharashtra attended the CEC meeting held at the party headquarters.
There is a dilemma over 33 seats
There is also talk that the three parties involved in the Mahavikas Aghadi are talking about dividing the remaining 33 seats among themselves and some among smaller parties. Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Thursday indicated that Mahavikas Aghadi allies could swap some seats among themselves.
The meeting was postponed last week.
This CEC Congress meeting was supposed to be held last week but was postponed due to differences between Mahavikas Aghadi leaders. However, Karva Chauth was cited behind this. There is also talk that Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena is adamant in demanding more seats, but Congress and NCP leaders are not ready. Recently, Uddhav Thackeray had also met Sharad Pawar to end differences over seats.
