New Delhi:The Congress has adopted a micro-management strategy for the November 20 Maharashtra polls and will set up Maha Vikas Aghadi Coordination Committees, war rooms and observers on all 288 Assembly seats. The local war rooms will be manned by the functionaries of the alliance partners Congress, Shiv Sena UBT and NCP-SP and coordinate with the AICC central war room, along with similar setups of the allies.
The alliance leaders said the coordination of the local teams belonging to the three parties had been tested during the Lok Sabha elections a few months ago and will be repeated in the assembly polls as well.
“The MVA is stable as compared to the chaotic Mahayuti. We had very good coordination between the alliance workers during the Lok Sabha elections and will carry it out during the upcoming assembly elections as well. There are local coordination teams and war rooms in all the 288 seats. We special observers for every seat and district besides the AICC observers for the five zones across the state. A team of senior leaders would monitor the polls from Delhi,” Congress Solapur Lok Sabha MP Praniti Shinde told ETV Bharat.
“The edge that MVA had over the Mahayuti in the Lok Sabha polls resulted from coordination and joint strategies. The MVA had some seat-sharing issues, but they were resolved amicably between the alliance partners. The MVA is fighting the BJP on all the seats and will defeat it,” she said.
Out of the total 48 Lok Sabha seats in Maharashtra, the MVA won 30, including 14 of Congress, which emerged as the single largest party against 17 of NDA, down from 41 in 2019. Though the national election results had shown the vote share of the NDA at 43.5 per cent was very close to MVA’s 44.9 per cent, in terms of the Assembly polls the MVA had an edge on 157 seats against NDA’s 128 seats.