Maharashtra BJP President Ashish Shelar Announces Plans for Assembly Polls with Mahayuti Allies
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], June 29: After the Maharashtra Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) core committee meeting on Saturday, state president Ashish Shelar announced that the BJP will contest the assembly polls with its Mahayuti ally partners. A road map for the elections was decided during the meeting.
Shelar mentioned that a proposal was passed to appreciate the Maharashtra budget, which aims to benefit all segments of society, including farmers, youth, and women. He stated, “BJP will contest assembly polls with its Mahayuti ally partners and a road map for the same was decided in the meeting. No organisational changes are to be made in the state unit of the BJP. Also, a proposal was passed appreciating yesterday’s budget of Maharashtra, which covers the welfare of all segments of society, including farmers, youth, women, etc. A clear road map for contesting and winning Assembly polls was discussed and finalised.”
The Mahayuti alliance includes the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena, the Bharatiya Janata Party, and the Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party. Union Ministers Bhupender Yadav, Ashwini Vaishnaw, and other party leaders also attended the core committee meeting.
The Maharashtra Assembly elections are scheduled for this year to elect 288 members of the state’s legislative assembly. On Friday, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and NCP chief Ajit Pawar, who also holds the finance portfolio, presented the state budget in the Assembly during the ongoing Monsoon Session. He announced the ‘Mukhyanantri Majhi Ladki Bahin’ scheme, under which all women between 21 and 60 years will receive Rs 1500 per month starting from July 2024. The scheme is inspired by Madhya Pradesh’s Ladli Behna Yojana of the BJP government.
Ajit Pawar also announced, “We will provide Rs 5000 per hectare bonus to all farmers for their crops of cotton and soybean in Maharashtra. We will also give 5 rupees per litre bonus to milk-producing farmers even after 1st July 2024. The government has increased the monetary help in deaths due to animal attacks; now the next of kin will get Rs 25 lakhs instead of Rs 20 lakhs earlier.”
In the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, the BJP secured nine seats in Maharashtra, while the Congress improved its seat share to 13. The Shiv Sena and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) won seven and one seats, respectively, bringing the NDA’s total to 17. The Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackrey) got nine seats, and the Nationalist Congress Party – Sharadchandra Pawar won eight seats.
