‘Congress was overconfident’: Uddhav Sena blames MVA ally for Maharashtra flopshow | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Ambadas Danve He sharpened his attack on Thursday Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), a Congress ally, alleged that the party “became overconfident after the Lok Sabha elections”.
Danve said the MVA would have performed better if they had announced Uddhav Thackeray as CM candidate for the election Maharashtra elections in which the bloc suffered a humiliating defeat.
“The Congress was overconfident after the Lok Sabha elections. The Congress people were ready with coats and ties to distribute the portfolios. If they had projected Uddhav Thackeray as the chief minister, the election results would have been different and the vote share would have been higher,” Danve said. news agency ANI.
After the assault in the Maharashtra Assembly ElectionsCracks have emerged in the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance as Shiv Sena’s newly elected MLAs and functionaries have urged party chief Uddhav Thackeray to participate independently in civic and local body elections, at least in cities where the party was active. until recently a dominant force.
On Wednesday, Danve hinted that a section of workers believe the party should go solo in the coming elections. “There is a feeling among a large part of the party to participate independently in the elections.
It does not matter whether Shiv Sena (UBT) gets power or not. The party was not born to seize power. It is a party that works on an ideology,” Danve, the Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Council, told new agency PTI.
However, earlier in the day, Sanjay Raut made it clear that his party would not be leaving MVA and such claims were just conjectures.
The MVA, comprising the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT), Sharad Pawar’s NCP (SP) and the Congress, suffered a humiliating defeat as it won only 46 of the 288 seats in the assembly.