"The Aam Aadmi Party will contest assembly elections all 36 seats in Mumbai. In the rest of Maharashtra, our colleagues and volunteers are galvanized and preparations are in full swing," AAP Mumbai President Preeti Sharma Menon said.
Elections to the 288-member Maharashtra Legislative Assembly are scheduled to be held later this year. However, the Election Commission of India has yet to announce the dates.
Ahead of the Maharashtra Assembly Election, which is scheduled later this year, Chief Minister Eknath Shinde met with Nationalist Congress Party (SCP) chief Sharad Pawar and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) Chief Raj Thackeray on Saturday.
The Congress has scheduled a meeting of all the senior leaders of the state, which will be chaired by the General Secretary (organisation) KC Venugopal, and the AICC Incharge of Maharashtra, Ramesh Chenithalla.
With regard to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Maharashtra's Mumbai, Shiv Sena (UBT) spokesperson Anand Dubey said that the situation is so much against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) that the PM will get a better answer in the Maharashtra assembly elections than in the 2024 genera
As the Maharashtra assembly elections are slated to be held later this year, discussions on seat-sharing in the Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance consisting of the Congress, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), and the Shiv Sena (UBT) among others are underway.
A senior Mumbai Congress leader said that they have collectively written a letter to party high command and have requested them to make necessary amendments to the party structure in view of the upcoming Assembly and BMC elections.
"Absolutely not. Those who left me will not be taken back," Uddhav Thackeray said when he was asked whether he will be taking back those leaders who had left his faction. When Sharad Pawar was asked the same question, he said, "There is no question of taking them back."