MUMBAI: With a day to go before filing of nominations close, both sides in Maharashtra's assembly polls still have around a dozen seats undecided. The Mahayuti of BJP- Shiv Sena - NCP has finalised candidates for 275 seats out of the total 288 while the MVA of Congress , NCP (SP) and Shiv Sena (UBT) has decided on 276.
This is the first election in recent decades when parties have been unable to finalise nominees for all seats until the penultimate day, an indication of how fraught seat-sharing talks have been between parties in both the alliances.
On Monday, BJP , Congress, Sena and NCP (SP) announced fresh lists of candidates. With this, BJP has declared the largest number of candidates (146), followed by Congress (103), Sena-UBT (85), Sena (80), Sharad Pawar-led NCP (76), and NCP (49).
Maharashtra Pradesh Congress chief Nana Patole said MVA had only a few seats left to finalise and he was sure that it would be done Tuesday. A BJP neta said his party, too, would close nomination exercise Tuesday morning. "Several parties are involved in negotiations; as a result, there is an inordinate delay in finalising nominations," Patole said.
Former Mumbai Congress president Bhai Jagtap said it was an unprecedented situation. "I have been seeing LS and assembly polls, and I have also seen coalition politics, but it's the first time that we have not been able to finalise nominations even at this stage," Jagtap said.
A former CM said both alliances are unwieldy with half a dozen parties in each of them competing for stakes. Rebel candidates who refuse to give up their claim to a specific seat, are present on a large scale. "We may be discussing the political situation at state level, but there are several local-level workers who do not recognise authority of their bosses. As a result, rebellion is bound to happen. The biggest challenge before the political leadership will be to tackle rebels (sic)," he said.
He felt friendly fights may be the only viable solution for tackling rebels. "Whether it is BJP, Congress, Shiv Sena, or both NCPs, there are rebels in each party who will certainly win," he said. He said if a rebel candidate enters the fray and wins, the candidate will eventually return to the original party.
This is the first election in recent decades when parties have been unable to finalise nominees for all seats until the penultimate day, an indication of how fraught seat-sharing talks have been between parties in both the alliances.
On Monday, BJP , Congress, Sena and NCP (SP) announced fresh lists of candidates. With this, BJP has declared the largest number of candidates (146), followed by Congress (103), Sena-UBT (85), Sena (80), Sharad Pawar-led NCP (76), and NCP (49).
Maharashtra Pradesh Congress chief Nana Patole said MVA had only a few seats left to finalise and he was sure that it would be done Tuesday. A BJP neta said his party, too, would close nomination exercise Tuesday morning. "Several parties are involved in negotiations; as a result, there is an inordinate delay in finalising nominations," Patole said.
Former Mumbai Congress president Bhai Jagtap said it was an unprecedented situation. "I have been seeing LS and assembly polls, and I have also seen coalition politics, but it's the first time that we have not been able to finalise nominations even at this stage," Jagtap said.
A former CM said both alliances are unwieldy with half a dozen parties in each of them competing for stakes. Rebel candidates who refuse to give up their claim to a specific seat, are present on a large scale. "We may be discussing the political situation at state level, but there are several local-level workers who do not recognise authority of their bosses. As a result, rebellion is bound to happen. The biggest challenge before the political leadership will be to tackle rebels (sic)," he said.
He felt friendly fights may be the only viable solution for tackling rebels. "Whether it is BJP, Congress, Shiv Sena, or both NCPs, there are rebels in each party who will certainly win," he said. He said if a rebel candidate enters the fray and wins, the candidate will eventually return to the original party.
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