NCP (SP) leader Jayant Patil stated on Friday that the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) is poised to secure over 170 seats in the 288-member Maharashtra assembly, with elections expected in October. Speaking at his party's 'Shiv Swarajya Yatra' events in Junnar and Manchar, Pune district, Patil criticized the ruling alliance, accusing them of betrayal and deceit, and emphasized that the people of Maharashtra are disillusioned by such actions.
Patil, who is the state unit chief of the Sharad Pawar-led NCP (SP), also said 70 per cent of MVA MLAs will be new faces. Patil criticized the Eknath Shinde government over the Mukhyamantri Ladki Bahin Yojana, alleging that the ruling alliance "has only started thinking about sisters after their defeat in the Lok Sabha elections."
"But the next government will be ours and we will provide good governance with concrete and long-term welfare schemes," Patil asserted.
The ruling alliance consists of Shiv Sena, BJP, and the Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party, while the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) coalition includes Uddhav Thackeray's Shiv Sena (UBT), the NCP (SP), and the Congress.