Samajwadi Party's Maharashtra unit president Abu Azmi had demanded five seats from the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) on October 25 and had given an ultimatum that if his demand was not met by 5 pm on October 26, SP would lose 25 seats in Maharashtra. present their candidates. But it seems MVA is in the mood to ignore the SP's demands in Maharashtra. Because on October 26, Shiv Sena (UBT) and Congress announced their candidates for three of the five seats demanded by Abu Azmi.
Maharashtra SP president Abu Azmi had sought seats in Dhule City, Bhiwandi East, Mankhurd, Bhiwandi West and Malegaon Central. Let us tell you that Abu Azmi himself is the MLA of Mankhurd Shivaji Nagar constituency and SP's Raees Shaikh is the MLA of Bhiwandi East. But on Saturday, Shiv Sena (UBT) declared former Dhule city MLA Anil Gote as its candidate. Whereas, Congress declared Ejaz Baig from Malegaon Central and Dayanand Motiram Choorghe from Bhiwandi West as its candidates.
#LOOK Mumbai: On sharing seats with Maha Vikas Aghadi, Samajwadi Party leader Abu Azmi says, “We spoke to Sharad Pawar yesterday. He said we will decide today, but I did not receive any call today. The seats I had been demanding are being announced. pic.twitter.com/Z86B2wje6e
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Let us tell you that the Samajwadi Party is part of the India Block at the national level, while MVA is an alliance of Uddhav Thackeray's Shiv Sena, Congress and Sharad Pawar's NCP in Maharashtra. After MVA allies announced candidates for the seats demanded by the SP, Abu Azmi, while speaking to news agency ANI, said: 'Yesterday we spoke to Sharad Pawar and presented our demands to him. They had said that we would make a decision today, but I didn't receive any call today. The candidates for the seats requested by the MVA have been announced. I think that like the last two times, this time too we will have to face betrayal. It seems that the parties included in the MVA do not want to give up seats to the Samajwadi Party.
Abu Azmi further said: 'I don't want the MVA to break up and the votes to be divided. But if they don't listen to us, we will have no choice but to stand alone in the elections. I have spoken to Akhilesh Yadav. He has given me full authority to make decisions. We are not like the Congress, where even big leaders have to go to Delhi to seek permission for everything, so the distribution of seats gets delayed. It's too late, there are only two days left. I will make my decision within these two days.
