In an enormous blow to the Maha Vikas Aghadi in Maharashtra, Samajwadi Get together has determined to exit the alliance. Samajwadi Get together chief Abu Azmi on Saturday introduced that his occasion has determined to take a seat out of the alliance after the dust-biting debacle within the lately concluded Meeting polls. The Maha Vikas Aghadi gained 30 of the 48 Lok Sabha seats in Maharashtra. Nonetheless, it gained solely 49 of the 288 seats within the November 20 state polls, outcomes of which had been declared on November 23. The Shiv Sena (UBT) emerged victorious on 20, Congress on 16, NCP (SP) on 10, Samajwadi Get together on two, whereas one seat went to the CPM.
Cracks had already emerged within the opposition after the drubbing it acquired within the Maharashtra meeting polls, with Shiv Sena (UBT) saying the Congress received overconfident after the Lok Sabha elections. Ambadas Danve, the Chief of Opposition within the state legislative council, additionally claimed some Congress leaders began deliberating on portfolios even earlier than successful the polls, whereas “ten leaders had been eager on turning into chief minister”. Danve mentioned had Uddhav Thackeray been the chief ministerial face of the Maha Vikas Aghadi, 2-5 per cent votes would have swung in its favour.
Upset over being allotted solely two meeting seats in Maharashtra, Samajwadi Get together’s state president Abu Asim Azmi earlier than the polls had criticised Congress of not studying any lesson from its defeat in Haryana.
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