"Prepared strategy for Maharashtra Assembly Elections...": Nana Patole after CWC meeting
Jun 08, 2024
New Delhi [India], June 8 : After the Congress Working Committee meeting, Maharashtra party chief Nana Patole on Saturday said that strategy has been prepared for the Maharashtra Assembly Elections, adding that Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) will win the elections with full majority.
"We have prepared our strategy for the Maharashtra Assembly Elections and MVA will win a majority and our government will be formed... We only demand that the BJP take care of our Constitution and democracy," Patole told ANI.
Earlier today, The meeting of the extended Congress Working Committee was held in the national capital.
The meeting was attended by Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi, Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge, Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi, Manish Tiwari, DK Shivakumar, and Revanth Reddy among others.
The Congress Working Committee passed the resolution that party MP Rahul Gandhi should be appointed as the Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha, sources said.
"The entire CWC demands that Rahul Gandhi be elected as the LoP and become the voice of the country," Nana Patole said.
Rahul Gandhi won the Lok Sabha elections from Raebareli in Uttar Pradesh and Wayanad in Kerala.
After the CWC meeting, Congress MP Kumari Selja said, "It was the CWC's wish that Rahul Gandhi be elected the LoP..."
Senior Congress leader and newly elected MP from Alappuzha KC Venugopal said "CWC unanimously requested Rahul Gandhi ji to take the responsibility of the leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha."
As per the Election Commission of India, the BJP bagged nine seats this time against 23 in the 2019 LS polls; the Shiv Sena secured seven seats while the NCP managed to win one seat in Maharashtra in Lok Sabha elections.
The Maharashtra Assembly elections are scheduled to be held this year to elect 288 members of the state's legislative assembly.
Congress fought the election as part of the INDIA bloc and the parties together were able to prevent BJP from getting a majority on its own in Lok Sabha. The BJP-led NDA won 293 in the polls.
In the Lok Sabha polls in 2024, the BJP did not cross the majority mark, bagging 240 seats. The Congress, on the other hand, registered a strong improvement, winning 99 seats. While the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance won 293 seats, the INDIA bloc crossed the 230 mark, posing stiff competition, and defying all predictions.
