Sanjay Raut pitches Uddhav as CM face for Maharashtra polls, MVA partners say will decide later

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Mumbai: With the Maharashtra assembly elections just a few months away, the Shiv Sena (UBT) has already pitched former chief minister Uddhav Thackerays name for the top post in the state, if the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) forms the government...

The alliances other key partners Congress and NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar) have, however, dismissed the idea and said the CM face would be decided later...

Speaking to the media Thursday morning in New Delhi, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader and MP Sanjay Raut said: Going into the assembly elections without a CM face will be dangerous..

Of Maharashtras 48 seats, the combine won 30 and got support from one independent.. Taking forward this success, the MVA partners held a joint press conference on 15 June and declared they would fight the upcoming state election together.. However, now, even before the start of seat-sharing talks, Raut has pointed to Uddhav as the CM face...

When the MVA was formed in 2019 after the assembly elections, Uddhav held the reins of the state for two-and-a-half years before his government was toppled by Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde and his MLAs...