There is intense discussion on seat sharing in the two big alliances Mahayuti and Mahavikas Aghadi for the Maharashtra Assembly elections. There is discussion regarding Mahavikas Aghadi that seat sharing can be announced today itself. According to information received from sources, Shiv Sena of Uddhav Thackeray faction is expected to get only 95 seats. Whereas Congress can get 100 to 105 seats. Uddhav Sena was continuously claiming 125 seats, but Congress said that it did not have the support base in the entire state. Therefore, Congress should be allowed to contest more seats.
On this issue, a heated war of words was also seen between Congress state president Nana Patole and Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut. Now according to the agreement that is going to be announced, Shiv Sena’s seats will remain in double digits. If this happens, it will be the lowest in the electoral history of Shiv Sena. Till now, there has not been a single occasion when Shiv Sena has contested elections on less than 100 seats. The saffron camp can now target Uddhav Thackeray, who separated from BJP and joined Congress and Sharad Pawar’s NCP.
By making this an issue, BJP can also link it to the honor of the Thackeray family. Earlier also she has been accusing Uddhav of compromising with the ideology of Balasaheb Thackeray. If Shiv Sena gets less than 100 seats, it will be its weakest figure since 1995. Generally, in all the elections its number of seats remained above 160. In 2019, it had made a slight compromise with the BJP and got 124 seats. Now he is ready to fight with Congress on less than 100 votes. In this way, for the first time in the history of the last 30 years, Uddhav Sena will contest elections on so few seats.
When and how many seats did Shiv Sena contest?
In 1995, Shiv Sena contested 169 seats and won 73.
In 1999, he had won 69 seats by fighting against 161 seats.
In 2004, Shiv Sena won 62 of the 163 seats contested.
In 2009, Shiv Sena had contested 160 seats and won 45.
In 2014, after fighting for 286 seats, he got 63.
In 2019, Shiv Sena had contested elections on 124 seats and was elected MLA on 56 seats.
