Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday attended a meeting of the three-party Opposition alliance MVA and it was decided all the constituents will come together to hold rallies in different parts of the state to take on the Eknath Shinde-BJP government, sources said. The meeting of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) was held at Vidhan Bhavan in south Mumbai. The state legislature is currently having its budget session.
Besides Thackeray, who heads the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray), Congress leaders Satej Patil and Yashomati Thakur and Leader of Opposition in the state Assembly Ajit Pawar of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) were present at the meeting. According to the sources, it was decided that the MVA will hold revenue division-wise rallies where leaders of all three Opposition outfits will participate.
Thackeray is a member of the Legislative Council. The Opposition bloc recently received a boost when Congress snatched the Kasba Peth Assembly seat in Pune city from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in a by-poll. The BJP had been winning the prestigious Assembly seat since 1995. A number of big cities, including Mumbai, Pune, and Nagpur, are due for civic elections this year before the state heads for Lok Sabha and Assembly polls in 2024.
