Shiv Sena (UBT) leaders like Sanjay Raut have began paying visits to Sangli which has not gone down nicely with state Congress management. (PTI)
Sangli, Bhiwandi and Mumbai South Central seats have change into drawback areas for the Congress, Shiv Sena and Sharad Pawar’s NCP
In Maharashtra, three seats have change into the thorns within the flesh of the MVA alliance, with Congress and the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena unable to succeed in a consensus.
The state management of the Congress is miffed as Thackeray, with out consulting with the social gathering, introduced Chandrahar Patil because the Sangli candidate. Because the final two elections, the Congress has been dropping this seat to BJP although it was their conventional turf.
Congress chief Vishal Patil is the grandson of former chief minister Vasantdada Patil and has the assist of the state management for this seat. To unravel the difficulty, former minister and Congress chief Vishwajit Kadam visited Delhi and met Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge a number of weeks again, requesting that to intervene within the subject.
In accordance with sources, Vishwajit was assured that the difficulty can be resolved quickly but it surely has been greater than two weeks and the Congress management has not been capable of take any resolution but.
However, Shiv Sena (UBT) leaders like Sanjay Raut have began paying visits to Sangli for his or her candidate. Raut, in his final go to, criticised the Congress and its native leaders, concentrating on Vishal Patil who had contested the 2019 election from the Swabhimani Celebration in opposition to BJP.
“Why did the Congress chief contest the 2019 polls from one other social gathering ticket if they’re so involved in regards to the Congress,” he requested.
This didn’t go down nicely with state Congress chief Nana Patole who mentioned Raut ought to chorus from making any feedback and that the difficulty may be resolved after speaking with the central management. “Raut shouldn’t be an extraordinary social gathering employee,” he added.
Aside from Sangli, Bhiwandi and Mumbai South Central seats have additionally change into hurdles. The Sharad Pawar faction has already introduced their candidate for the Bhiwandi seat which the Congress desires to contest from. The Congress, in the meantime, has a powerful candidate for Mumbai South Central and needs Shiv Sena UBT to offer the seat to them however the latter has given the ticket to Anil Desai. That is the primary time Desai will contesting the Lok Sabha polls.
