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Lok Sabha Elections 2024: In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, BJP registered a massive victory under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. On the other hand, the Congress party once again faced a historic defeat under the leadership of Rahul Gandhi. If we talk about Maharashtra today in the context of this defeat, then politically it is the second largest state in the country.
There are 48 Lok Sabha seats in the state of Maharashtra, but one leader has given a big blow to the Congress-NCP alliance in the state. Due to this, UPA missed winning about 12 seats in the state. If those leaders had been with Congress-NCP, the picture of Maharashtra would have been different today.
We are talking about Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA) of Maharashtra. Its leader is Prakash Ambedkar, grandson of Constitution maker Bhimrao Ambedkar. They could not form an alliance with UPA in 2019. For this reason, they fielded their candidates on 47 out of 48 seats in the state.
The result was that he was successful in dividing the anti-NDA votes widely. He got about 14 percent votes and directly defeated UPA candidates on about a dozen seats in the state. Because of this, only five UPA MPs from Maharashtra could reach the Lok Sabha. Out of which four were from NCP and only one was from Congress.
Bad mathematics on these seats – Amravati, Buldhana, Chandrapur, Gadchiroli-Chimur, Hatkanangale, Madha, Nanded, Parbhani, Sangli, Solapur and Yavatmal-Washim were the seats in the state where VBA got good votes. If the votes polled by the VBA on these seats were added to the votes polled by the UPA candidate, the NDA candidate could have lost.
Prakash Ambedkar formed the Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA) along with Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi's party AIMIM. He had a good share of votes from the Dalit and Muslim communities. Many voluntary organizations were also included in his Aghadi.
Prakash Ambedkar had negotiated an alliance with UPA before the 2019 elections, but that alliance broke at the last moment. After this he fielded his candidates on 47 seats.
Navneet Rana cannot become MP! VBA candidate Gunwant Devpare has got about 65 thousand votes on Amravati seat. Independent candidate Navneet Rana won from here by about 36500 votes. If the Congress candidate had got these votes, the result would have been different. The situation in Buldhana was similar. Here there was a contest between Shiv Sena's Prataprao Jadhav and NCP's Rajendra Shingane.
Jadhav won by 1.33 lakh votes, but here the VBA candidate got 1.66 lakh votes. If the UPA candidate had got these votes, the results could have changed here too.
In Gadchiroli-Chimur, VBA candidate Ramesh Kumar Gajbe got 1.11 lakh votes, while BJP's Ashok Net won by just 77 thousand votes. If there was an alliance, the victory of the Congress candidate would have been assured. Similarly, the candidate who won on seats like Hatkanangle, Madha, Nanded, Prabani, Sangli, Solapur, Yavatmal Yashim got more votes than the VBA candidate.
AIMIM's victory from Aurangabad – Apart from this, Imtiaz Jaleel contested the elections from Aurangabad on AIMIM ticket and won from Shiv Sena's Chandrakant Khair by about 4500 votes. In the last elections, MNS had not fielded any candidate, but its leader Raj Thackeray had held 10 rallies in favor of the Congress-NCP alliance.
Congress in Chandrapur – VBA candidate Rajendra Mahdol missed victory in Chandrapur also. He got about 80 thousand votes. Here Congress candidate Suresh Dhanokar won by about 45 thousand votes, but if VBA was with Congress then this margin would have increased.
Current situation- This time Prakash Ambedkar is a part of Mahavikas Aghadi. No final consensus has been reached yet among the alliance regarding seats. At the same time, both Shiv Sena and NCP have separated in this election. Some big leaders of Congress have also left, but if Prakash Ambedkar stays with Mahavikas then definitely the Lok Sabha elections in Maharashtra will be interesting.