"I challenge PM Modi to start campaigning for Assembly polls": Uddhav Thackeray

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], June 19 : Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday addressed Shiv Sena's 58th Foundation Day event and challenged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to begin campaigning for the upcoming Assembly elections.
At the party's foundation day, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Uddhav Thackeray said, "Today, I welcomed not only our winning MPs but also those who did not win. I want the government to fall and elections to be held so that we can form the INDIA alliance government..."
Challenging Prime Minister Narendra Modi to initiate campaigning for Assembly polls, Thackeray said, "I openly challenge PM Modi to start campaigning for Assembly elections from today itself... I challenge PM Modi to go to Andhra Pradesh and say that whatever Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu has said in his manifesto he will fulfil it."
In the Lok Sabha elections, Congress won 13 out of 48 seats while BJP secured nine seats. Shiv Sena (UBT) won nine seats while Nationalist Congress Party - Sharadchandra Pawar - NCPSP won eight seats. On the other hand, Shiv Sena secured seven seats while NCP secured one seat.
Maharashtra witnessed the poll battle between the Shiv Sena-UBT (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray faction) and the Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde faction)-BJP alliance and the NCP (Ajit Pawar) and the NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar).
Under the seat-sharing arrangement, the BJP contested in 28 constituencies, while its allies Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde faction) fought in 14 constituencies and the Ajit Pawar-led NCP in five constituencies.
On the other hand, Maha Vikas Aghadi members Shiv Sena (UBT) contested in 21 constituencies, Congress in 17, and the NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar) in 10 constituencies.