Uddhav Sena to contest Maharashtra local body elections alone, says Sanjay Raut
The Rajya Sabha MP also attacked Congress leader Vijay Wadettiwar for his comments about the Maha Vikas Aghadi’s loss in the state Assembly polls in November.
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Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) leader Sanjay Raut on Saturday announced that his party would contest the upcoming local body elections in Maharashtra alone, The Hindu reported.
“In an alliance, workers of individual parties don’t get opportunities and it hampers organisational growth,” Raut told reporters in Nagpur. “We will contest polls to Mumbai, Thane, Nagpur and other municipal corporations, zilla parishads and panchayats on our strength.”
Maharashtra minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule said on December 25 that pending elections to local bodies in the state would be held by April if the Supreme Court pronounced orders concerning the state’s Other Backward Caste reservation dispute in the first week of January, reported The Hindu.
Raut on Saturday also attacked Maharashtra’s former Leader of Opposition and Congress MLA Vijay Wadettiwar for his comments on the Maha Vikas Aghadi’s loss in the Maharashtra Assembly elections.
On November 23, the ruling Mahayuti alliance – comprising the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Shiv Sena group led by former Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and the Nationalist Congress Party faction led by Ajit Pawar – won 230 seats in the 288-member Assembly. The Maha Vikas Aghadi – comprising the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray), the NCP faction headed by Sharad Pawar and the Congress – won 46 seats. BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis was sworn in as the chief...
