Alliance jolted over a few seats

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- Ravikiran Deshmukh

With barely one day left for filing of nominations, the ruling Mahayuti as well as the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) appears to have been facing a tough situation as candidates from allies have filed nominations against their alliance members- making the seat sharing exercise a bit tricky issue.

On Monday, the NCP(SP), a constituent of the MVA, announced its fourth list making the total number of candidates to 265 for 262 seats by the alliance partners. The NCP(SP), Congress and Shiv Sena UBT have fielded their candidates against each other in three assembly constituencies - Digras, Bhoom-Paranda and Solapur South.

The total number of candidates announced by the Congress are 103, SS-UBT 84 and NCP SP 82. So far 22 candidates are yet to be announced by them.