Congress Survey Suggests Majority For MVA In Maharashtra Assembly Polls

The mood in the rank and file of the Maharashtra state unit of Congress is upbeat after an internal survey carried out by the party suggested a big win for the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) in the upcoming state assembly elections.

According to a Times of India report, the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) conducted a survey across the 288 assembly seats in the state last month.

As per the survey’s findings, Congress is expected to emerge as the single largest party by winning 80-85 seats. Its allies in the MVA – the coalition of opposition parties in the state, Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar is expected to win 55-60 seats while Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) is seen winning in the range of 30-32 seats.

In case of the ruling Mahayuti coalition, the survey suggests that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has chances of winning 60-62 seats while its allies, the Eknath Shinde–led Shiv Sena is predicted to grab 30-32 seats and the Ajit Pawar–led NCP is expected to bag 8-9 seats.

The survey’s findings reportedly did not go down well with the Shiv Sena (UBT) which aims to emerge as the single largest party in the upcoming polls.

Showing less seats for Sena is being seen as Congress and NCP SP’s strategy to discourage the saffron party in the opposition grouping from claiming Chief Ministership for its leader Uddhav Thackeray who was the CM in the previous MVA government’s tenure.

In the recently held 2024 Lok Sabha polls, Congress' seat share in the state jumped from a single seat in 2019 to emerging victorious in 13 Lok Sabha constituencies. The MVA as a whole won 30 out of 48 Lok Sabha seats in the state.