Mumbai, 27 May (HS): The Maha-Vikas Aghadi has decided to contest all 16 seats to

the Legislative Council and also one by-election in Nagpur. The elections from

the Local Government Authorities constituencies are scheduled for June 18. The

decision to field candidates in all the constituencies was held during a

meeting of leaders of all the MVA partners in Mumbai. Another meeting will be

held two days later to decide distribution of seats among the partners. The

information was given to the media by Congress Regional Unit President

Harshavardhan Sapkal on Wednesday.

Besides

Sapkal, NCP (Sharad Pawar) regiuonal unit President Shashikant Shinde, and MP

Supriya Sule, Shiv Sena (UBT) MLAs Anil Parab, Ambadas Danve and Milind

Narvekar attended the meeting.

Sapkal

alleged that BJP does not respect democracy and is engaged in horse trading for

the elections. The partners is BJP-led Mega Alliance are not happy with the

dominance of BJP.

Referring

to road blockade by farmers in Chandwad in Nashik district, Sapkal said that

the Devendra Fadnavis Government was shaken due to the unity of farmers I staging

the agitation. The Government tried to suppress the agitation using police

force. He had to talk to Union Home Minister Amit Shah about the problem of

onion growers in Nashik.

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Hindusthan Samachar / Ajay Vasant Mardikar