"People are in favour of Maha Vikas Aghadi...": Maharashtra Congress on assembly polls

New Delhi [India], August 6 : Ahead of the upcoming Assembly Elections, Maharashtra Congress-in charge, Ramesh Chennithala said on Tuesday that the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) is geared up to win and the people are in their favour.
He also targeted the present state coalition government of BJP, Shiv Sena and NCP and said that the Maharashtra government is the most corrupt in the country.
"Elections in Maharashtra are coming up and the MVA is geared up to win. The people are in our favour. Official discussions will begin with the first meeting of the MVA on 7th August in Mumbai. We are meeting Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge tomorrow. The Maharashtra government is the most corrupt in the country. Seat sharing and CM candidate will be announced soon," he said.
On Saturday, while speaking about the upcoming assembly polls in Maharashtra, former CM and Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray slammed Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and said that the battle is in the field and in Mumbai, either he would stay or the BJP.
The former CM while addressing party workers in Pune on Saturday said, "Now the battle is in the field, I said in Mumbai 'either I stay or you stay'. Here is a poster. In the photo, a Kalingad (Uddhav Thackeray calls Devendra Fadnavis watermelon) is placed at my feet. Some thought I challenged him (Devendra Fadnavis). But, you don't challenge the clods, you have to crush them with your finger. You are not big enough for me to challenge."
The Aam Aadmi Party announced on Monday that it will contest the upcoming assembly elections in Maharashtra. The party rank and file in Mumbai have already started extensive preparations for this.
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray on Monday announced the names of candidates for two assembly seats for the upcoming elections in the state.
Bala Nandgaonkar will contest from the Shivadi Assembly constituency of Mumbai while Dilip Dhotre will enter the fray from Pandharpur.
The state is likely to go to poll for the 288-member legislative assembly later this year, as the tenure of the current government ends in 2024.
However, the Election Commission has yet to announce the dates.
The BJP dipped to nine seats in Maharashtra against 23 in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. The vote share stood at 26.18 per cent. The Congress, on the other hand, marginally improved its seat share by securing 13 seats in the state.
The Shiv Sena and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) won seven and one seats respectively, taking the total tally of the NDA to 17. The Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) got nine seats while the Nationalist Congress Party - Sharadchandra Pawar won eight seats.