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Maharashtra Politics: Piyush Goyal Addresses Leadership Speculation After BJP’s Key Review Meeting
Maharashtra Politics: Piyush Goyal Addresses Leadership Speculation After BJP’s Key Review Meeting
After the BJP’s dismal showing in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, union minister Piyush Goyal said the party was developing a plan for the Shiv Sena-BJP-NCP alliance to win the assembly polls, which are scheduled for later this year. Goyal also ruled out any changes to the party’s leadership in Maharashtra. “There will be no change in leadership in Maharashtra,” Piyush Goyal informed reporters during the Maharashtra BJP’s core group meeting in New Delhi on Tuesday, which included party president JP Nadda and Union home minister Amit Shah.
Rao Saheb Patil’s appointment as state president was rumored. There was also much conjecture in the state regarding the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), led by Ajit Pawar, staying in the ruling coalition. The BJP officials reportedly talked about how to guarantee the MahaYuti alliance’s reelection in the next assembly election, according to Piyush Goyal. Senior BJP officials BL Santosh, Bhupender Yadav, Ashwini Vaishnaw, Chandrashekhar Bawankule, the state BJP leader, Sudhir Mungantiwar, Chandrakant Patil, Pankaja Munde, Raosaheb Danve, and Vinod Tawde were among those present at the meeting, according to the news agency.
The BJP lost its 2019 tally of 23 seats in Maharashtra to win just nine in the Lok Sabha elections of 2024. In Maharashtra, the BJP-Shiv Sena combination had secured 41 of the 48 Lok Sabha seats in the 2019 elections. With one NCP member and seven Shiv Sena members led by Eknath Shinde, the total number of seats held by the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) today is 17. Devendra Fadnavis, the deputy chief minister of Maharashtra, had made the offer to leave the Shiv Sena-BJP-NCP MahaYuti coalition in order to concentrate on leading the party to victory in the September–October assembly elections.
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Following the meeting, Devendra Fadnavis declared, “We have prepared a blueprint for the upcoming assembly elections and how to win it along with the MahaYuti alliance partners.” He also mentioned the party’s performance in the Lok Sabha elections during the conversation at the BJP headquarters. In the latest Lok Sabha elections, the difference in votes between the ruling MahaYuti and the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) was barely 0.3%, according to Fadnavis. The leaders also held a detailed discussion about the BJP’s advantages and disadvantages.
Source: Hindustan Times
