{"id":660457,"date":"2024-03-06T00:00:45","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T04:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/?p=660457"},"modified":"2024-03-06T00:00:45","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T04:00:45","slug":"lok-sabha-elections-maharashtra-seat-division-a-headache-for-nda-amit-shah-to-settle-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/660457\/","title":{"rendered":"Lok Sabha Elections; Maharashtra Seat Division A Headache For NDA, Amit Shah To Settle Dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\"><strong><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-660458\" src=\"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Mahara.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" \/>Mumbai:<\/span><\/strong><span>\u00a0There is a dispute between NDA allies in Maharashtra regarding the division of seats for the Lok Sabha elections.\u00a0In Maharashtra, the biggest challenge facing the BJP is the situation in which it has to consider its own leaders in addition to securing seats for the constituent party leaders.\u00a0Last time, NDA won 41 out of 48 seats in the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span>BJP candidates won all the 25 contested seats.\u00a0Shiv Sena contested in 23 seats and won in 18 seats.\u00a0But the split in the Shiv Sena after the election is a huge setback for the NDA this time.\u00a0Along with the split, many senior workers have joined the Congress, which is causing concern in the NDA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span>Not only the allies but also the leaders are unhappy about the seat sharing.\u00a0In Maharashtra, where the NDA government has been formed for years, the contest is likely to be tight this time.\u00a0The challenge for NDA is recognition in this regard.\u00a0Marathwad, Vidarbha and North Maharashtra are in the thick of the seat-sharing dispute.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span>Maharashtra has witnessed minor issues over seat sharing in previous years as well.\u00a0Union Minister Amit Shah himself came to Mumbai to discuss and resolve the issue.\u00a0The fact is that Amit Shah held a discussion with the leaders on Tuesday (March 5) but it did not bear fruit.\u00a0The minister held a discussion with the leaders around 10.30 pm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span>In the presence of BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis, he tried to convince Sharat Pawar for half an hour.\u00a0Following this, Amit Shah also spoke to Chief Minister Shinde.\u00a0The BJP wants to field candidates in 30 of the 48 Lok Sabha seats in the state.\u00a0The party&#8217;s aim is to win the NDA in all 370 seats at the national level.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span>Sources also said that BJP is ready to give 12 seats to Shiv Sena Shinde faction and 5 seats to NCP.\u00a0But the allies were not ready to accept this decision of BJP.\u00a0The Shinde faction is demanding 23 seats instead of 12.\u00a0It is reported that Amit Shah has come to resolve the seat sharing dispute, but the matter has not been decided yet.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai:\u00a0There is a dispute between NDA allies in Maharashtra regarding the division of seats for the Lok Sabha elections.\u00a0In Maharashtra, the biggest challenge facing the BJP is the situation in which it has to consider its own leaders in addition to securing seats for the constituent party leaders.\u00a0Last time, NDA won 41 out of 48 seats in the state. BJP candidates won all the 25 contested seats.\u00a0Shiv Sena contested in 23 seats and won in 18 seats.\u00a0But the split in the Shiv Sena after the election is a huge setback&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":660458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47743],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660459,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660457\/revisions\/660459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}