Maha Assembly Poll results 2024 shocks Uddhav Thackeray
Maha Assembly Poll results 2024 shocks Uddhav Thackeray
The Saturday, 23, November 2024 Maharashtra Assembly Election results and the stunning reverse has come as a rude shock for Uddhav Thackeray, former Chief Minister of Maharashtra who reposed faith in his people and pinned high hopes for victory and rule Maharashtra again.
He termed opposition’s victory as ideological.
Speaking to reporters after the Opposition alliance ,Maha Vikas Aghadi posted a result widely different from the outcome in the Lok Sabha election, questioned how four months could bring about such a drastic difference.
His eyes can’t believe that Maharashtra, which listened to him as head of family amidst COVID, will behave with him this way… How could they (the ruling alliance) win so many seats in just a matter of four months? Where did they light candles for such a result?” questioned the 64-year-old former CM of Maharashtra.
Asserting that the MVA rallies were much better attended than that of the ruling alliance, he went on to say that people listened to them, not to Modi and Amit Shah and the people even said they don’t need to listen to them. Did they decide to vote without listening to them?” he said, then added in a sarcastic vein, “How can an empty chair turn into votes”.
Thackeray, though, brushed aside the key talking point one that had been repeatedly underscored by the winning combine
has it now been proved “Who is the real Shiv Sena”? “For the last many years,they haven’t received a decision on the party name and election symbol, firmly shunting the ball towards the courts, where the matter is pending.
The rebel faction of Shinde, which pitched the electoral battle as a test of “Who is the real Shiv Sena” lost no time in announcing it as an ideological victory.
The BJP and its allies’ victory came on the heels of the party’s spectacular performance in Haryana amid what many mis-read as massive anti-incumbency against the Nayab Singh Saini government and expected a Congress victory.
Thackeray, though, put a different spin on the matter.
A few years ago, (BJP chief) JP Nadda had said there will only be one party. It seems that they are moving in the same direction — one party one nation,” he said. He would tell people not to lose hope.
The Sena UBT chief, though did not blame the Electronic Voting Machines. “Some people are saying that EVM is behind this victory. He says if people have accepted it then he has no problem
Thackeray’s Sena (UBT) won 20 of the 89 seats it contested, way below Eknath Shinde faction’s 57 of 80. Mahayuthi — the ruling alliance of Shinde’s Sena, Ajit Pawar’s faction of the Nationalist Congress Party and the BJP are ahead on 236 of Maharashtra’s 288 seats.
The massive reverses for the Maha Vikas Aghadi comes barely six months after the alliance’s stunning performance in the Lok Sabha election, which many said, had made clear the voters’ disapproval of the political tumult of the last two years split in Shiv Sena followed by the collapse of the Uddhav Thackeray government, and the subsequent split in the Nationalist Congress Party of Sharad Pawar.
News Edit KV Raman
