MVA seat sharing: VBA gives proposal to contest 27 seats, candidature to Jarange Patil from Jalna | Mumbai News
MVA seat sharing: VBA gives proposal to contest 27 seats, candidature to Jarange Patil from Jalna | Mumbai News
Even as the three parties in Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) Congress, NCP-Sharadchandra Pawar and Shiv Sena UBT concluded their final meeting for discussion on the seat sharing allocation of Lok Sabha polls on Wednesday, the Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi put forth their proposal of contesting 27 seats out of the 48 LS seats in the state.
Sources in the MVA however have said that it is unlikely to give 27 seats to VBA and it looked like the VBA is causing difficulties in making alliance work and resolving the issue of seat sharing.
The second rung leaders of Congress, Sharad Pawar led NCP and Sena UBT held their last meeting to discuss the seat sharing formula on Wednesday in Mumbai.
VBA leader and deputy president Dhairyavardhan Pundkar also attended the meeting and put forward four proposals in the meeting with a letter which had a list of 27 seats which the VBA wished to contest.
The VBA proposed that Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange Patil from Jalna and Dr Abhijit Vaidya from Pune LS constituencies should be common candidates of MVA. Along with that, 15 seats should be given to candidates from OBC category and three seats should be given to the candidates from the minority.
Pundkar said that he has submitted a list of 27 seats in the meeting and the party is willing to discuss the issue in Delhi to resolve the issue.
“We have submitted a proposal for 27 LS seats during the meeting. We are willing to discuss and negotiate on seats except for some seats. We have proposed that Manoj Jarange Patil from Jalna and Dr Abhijit Vaidya from Pune LS constituencies should be common candidates of MVA. Along with that, we have also proposed to give 15 seats to OBCs and three seats to minority candidates,” Pundkar said further adding that, “The MVA wrote letters and offered many times to include us in Maha Vikas Aghadi(MVA). The decision should be taken after discussing with the Constituent parties. We are willing to discuss it in Delhi and resolve the issue regarding seat allocation.”
Responding to the proposal of VBA, Sena UBT MP Sanjay Raut said that VBA has not staked claim or has proposed to contest on 27 seats but has only expressed the wish of contesting on 27 seats.
“We are discussing the proposal of VBA. VBA has not staked claim on the 27 seats but have expressed a wish of contesting on the 27 seats. No further meetings means that seat sharing is completed. Now the chiefs of the four parties including Sharad Pawar, Uddhav Thackeray, Sonia Gandhi ji and Prakash Ambedkar will meet and declare the seat sharing,” Raut said.
Speaking on the proposal of Manoj Jarange Patil as a common candidate of MVA, Jarange is not a political leader and no such proposal has been given by the VBA.
Jarange however refused to clear his stand on the issue, simply stating that “Politics is not my agenda and the most important issue in front of him is Maratha reservation.”
