Top leaders of all constituents of the MVA participated in the key meeting in Mumbai. Shiv Sena UBT is eyeing most seats in Mumbai, sources said.
Despite the bandh, public transport is expected to operate normally, and hospitals and educational institutions will remain open, with schools closing only if they typically do on Saturdays. Banks will be closed due to the fourth Saturday of the month, in line with RBI regulations.
Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Uddhav Thackeray said the MVA has called for a Maharashtra bandh on August 24 in protest against the atrocities on girls in Badlapur. He said if girls are not safe in school then what is the meaning of 'Mulgi Shikli, Pragati Jhali', he asked.
The Maha Vikas Aghadi said all three parties of the MVA will participate in this day-long bandh and Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray demanded that the sexual abuse case of school girls in Badlapur be fast-tracked and speedy justice ensured to the victims.
The Maha Vikas Aghadi coalition has nearly finalized its candidate list for eight key constituencies in Sangli district, distributing seats among Congress, NCP (Sharad Pawar faction), and Uddhav Thackeray's Shiv Sena.
The upcoming Maharashtra Assembly Election 2024 is becoming more intriguing. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has delivered a major blow to the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) by announcing its plans to field candidates for all 36 assembly seats in Mumbai.
In the results announced in the evening for the high-stakes polls held earlier in the day, where 12 candidates were in the fray for 11 seats, the BJP won five seats, while Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena and the Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) bagged two seats each.
The dinner meeting on the eve of the polls is significant as 12 candidates are in the fray for biennial elections to 11 MLC seats. Also, the election is seen as the semi-final months ahead of the Assembly election in the state.
During the press conference, Pawar said that there is a need for a change in the state and it is the moral responsibility of the opposition coalition to discharge it. He also said that apart from the three main parties, there are small parties in MVA, whose interests will be protected.
On the first day of the Maharashtra Assembly's monsoon session, Devendra Fadnavis and Uddhav Thackeray met unexpectedly and exchanged words in a lift. Despite past tensions, the leaders engaged in friendly conversation.
Assembly elections in Maharashtra are due to be held later this year along with the polls in Haryana and Jharkhand. NCP-Sharadchandra Pawar, Shiv Sena (Uddhav Thackeray) and Congress are members of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance.
The Bharatiya Janata Party pitted four candidates in Marathwada, all of who lost their seat. These four candidates include some of the prominent names like Pankaja Munde and Ashok Chavan.
Addressing a rally in Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg Lok Sabha constituency, Thackeray expressed regret for his previous support of Modi and urged voters to reject BJP's 'dictatorship'.
Maharashtra Congress Chief Nana Patole has announced that the seat-sharing formula for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls will be disclosed within the next day or two.
MVA has offered four Lok Sabha seats to the Prakash Ambedkar-led Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA), which is for the latter to consider, Sanjay Raut had said earlier. The MVA has now given an ultimatum to VBA to clarify its stance on the matter.
The breakthrough comes after the intervention of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. Last night a crucial meeting was held in which MVA allies achieved an agreement on the seat-sharing in Maharashtra, said the sources.
Lok Sabha election 2024: Countering Ambedkar for making misleading statements, Raut reiterated that the VBA’s list of 27 winnable seats was given to the MVA leaders who discussed it, and from those 27, they have decided to allot four seats to Ambedkar, who has to take a final call.
MVA constituents - Congress, Shiv Sena (UBT) headed by Uddhav Thackeray and NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar) - have been holding hectic parleys for the last several days to reach a consensus on the allocation of seats but to date, no solution was achieved.
Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray has once again requested Union Minister Nitin Gadkari to leave the BJP. This offer came after Gadkari's name was omitted from the BJP's first list of Lok Sabha candidates.
Sanjay Nirupam has been staking claim over the Mumbai North-West Lok Sabha seat, however, tensions within the MVA are likely to rise as Uddhav Thackeray declared the candidate on the seat from his party even though the MVA has yet not officially declared any candidates in the state so far.
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