Maharashtra Assembly election dates are to be announced today. The Election Commission is going to hold a press conference. Now everyone's eyes are on ticket distribution. No official announcement has been made as to who will get how many seats, but it is discussed that the BJP central leadership met the local leaders and the party has decided on 100 seats.
allotment of tickets
It is noteworthy that the central leadership of BJP held a meeting with the local unit leaders regarding the Maharashtra Assembly elections. BJP President JP Nadda, Home Minister Amit Shah, Devendra Fadnavis, Chandrashekhar Bawankule and election in-charges Bhupendra Yadav and Ashwini Vaishnav were present in the meeting. The party's Central Election Committee meeting will be held on October 16, in which the first list for Maharashtra and Jharkhand elections will be announced.
The name is almost decided!
As to which seats BJP can finalize the names of candidates for, along with the existing MLAs, BJP can also finalize the names of candidates on some lost seats in the list. The meeting lasted for about 4 hours. In which a presentation was given by the leaders of the state unit regarding all the 288 seats. However, the discussion took place only on those seats on which the party is contesting. Let us tell you that BJP had contested the 2019 elections on 164 seats, so this time the party can contest on 170 seats.
what was discussed in the meeting
In the meeting, the mistakes made in the Lok Sabha elections were not repeated in the assembly elections. If sources are to be believed, the party will contest elections on most of the seats in Vidarbha, Mumbai and North Maharashtra. While Shiv Sena will contest on the seats of Konkan and North Maharashtra and NCP will contest on the seats of West Maharashtra and Marathwada. Consensus has also been reached on seat sharing in the Grand Alliance. The three parties can exchange some seats among themselves.
Final decision on seat sharing soon
In the core group meeting of BJP, a meeting was also held on maintaining mutual coordination among the allies. It was also discussed in the meeting that the MPs whose tickets have been canceled in the Lok Sabha elections or the candidates who have lost the Lok Sabha elections will not be given tickets. The party will announce the candidates keeping in mind the winning candidate and social equations. There is talk that Ajit Pawar and Eknath Shinde may also go to Delhi soon and meet JP Nadda and Home Minister Amit Shah. It is believed that after this meeting a final announcement regarding seat distribution can be made.