The Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi coalition on Tuesday announced its seat sharing formula for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. The NCP (SP) will contest on 10 seats, Congress 17 seats and Shiv Sena (UBT) on 21 seats. The seat sharing plan was announced by NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Uddhav Thackeray and state Congress president Nana Patole.

The UBT faction of Shiv Sena will contest from Sangli seat that Congress wanted. Wrestler Chandrahar Patil is Sena (UBT)’s candidate from Sangli. Talking to the media Sanjay Raut said Shiv Sena (UBT) has given Ramtek and Amravati seats to the Congress. He said as far as Sangli is concerned, workers from western Maharshtra wanted to contest the seat. They decided to exchange the Kolhapur seat with Congress.

The Shiv Sena (UBT) announced its candidate after seat sharing deliberations at a higher level. He said whatever the sentiments of the Congress they will calm down in a couple of days. The Sharad Pawar faction of the NCP will contest Bhiwandi constituency. Lok Sabha elections for Maharashtra’s 48 seats will be held in 5 phases between April 19 and May 20 and the counting of votes is going to take place on June 4.

Sharad Pawar of NCP(SP) said there are no differences on any seat. He said they had declared the seat sharing after mutual agreement. List of Shiv Sena (UBT) seats are Jalgaon, Parbhani, Nashik, Palghar, Kalyan, Thane, Raigad, Maval, Osmanabad, Aurangabad, Ratnagiri, Buldhana, Hatkanangale, Shirdi, Sangli, Hingoli, Yavatmal, Washim, Mumbai North West, Mumbai South Central, Mumbai South and Mumbai North East .

List of Congress seats are Nandurbar,Dhule, Akola, Amravati, Nagpur, Bhandara-Gondia, Gadchiroli-Chimur, Chandrapur, Nanded, Jalna, Pune, Latur, Solapur, Kolhapur, Ramtek, Mumbai North , Mumbai Noth Central. List of NCP (SP) seats are Baramati, Shirur, Satara, Bhiwandi, Dindori, Madha, Raver, Wardha, Ahmednagar and Beed.

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