New Delhi:
The Aam Aadmi Get together won’t contest the upcoming meeting elections in Maharashtra. As a substitute, occasion chief Arvind Kejriwal will marketing campaign for the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) coalition, AAP chief Sanjay Singh mentioned on Saturday.
The MVA coalition contains Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena (UBT), Sharad Pawar’s NCP-SP, and the Congress.
“Within the Maharashtra elections, the occasion’s Nationwide Convenor, Arvind Kejriwal, will marketing campaign for the MVA candidates. Aam Aadmi Get together won’t contest elections in Maharashtra,” Singh, who’s a Rajya Sabha MP, mentioned on X.
In response to AAP sources, the Shiv Sena (UBT) and the NCP-SP contacted the occasion about Arvind Kejriwal campaigning in Maharashtra. Arvind Kejriwal can also be set to marketing campaign for Hemant Soren’s ruling Jharkhand Mukti Morcha in Jharkhand meeting polls, they mentioned.
There are 288 meeting seats in Maharashtra, and voting will happen on November 20.
In Jharkhand, polling will likely be held in two phases on November 13 and 20, whereas the counting of votes in each states will happen on November 23.
AAP and the MVA constituents are a part of the Indian Nationwide Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA), which was fashioned earlier than the 2024 Lok Sabha polls to tackle the BJP.
AAP entered into an alliance with the Congress, the biggest constituent of the INDIA bloc, in Delhi, Gujarat and Haryana for the Lok Sabha polls.
Nonetheless, it contested by itself in Punjab.
It additionally contested the current meeting elections in Haryana independently and didn’t open its account.
The Congress can also be a constituent of the MVA in Maharashtra and part of the ruling alliance in Jharkhand.
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