BJP sets target of 220+ in Maharashtra

July 21, 2019 20:42

The ruling BJP in Maharashtra on Sunday set a target of winning more than 220 seats with its allies in the assembly elections, due later this year, at its state executive met here to chalk out poll strategy.

Addressing the conclave, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis exuded confidence that he will get a second term in the office, a statement that may raise hackles of the BJP ally Shiv Sena, which has been eyeing the post.

Senior party leader and state Finance Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar moved a resolution to win more than 220 seats. "Abki bar 220 par," he said.

Maharashtra BJP president and Revenue Minister Chandrakant Patil said the party needs to further strengthen its booth management in all 288 assembly constituencies, irrespective of how the seat-sharing among the allies is worked out.

"We have to ensure victory of the BJP as well as the candidates of our allies so that we can form a strong and stable government", he said and asserted that the alliance would win more than 220 seats in the assembly elections due in September-October.

In 2014, the BJP emerged as the single largest party, winning 122 seats in the 288-member House. The Sena, which had contested separately, won 63 seats. The Uddhav Thackeray-led party later forged an alliance with the BJP but the ties have remained strained between the two after the BJP emerged as a dominant partner in the state.

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari and Maharashtra Women and Children Development Minister Pankaja Munde skipped the one-day conclave.

Munde was scheduled to move a political resolution along with Mungantiwar.

Patil said Munde could not attend the meeting as she was travelling abroad for her son's college admission, while Gadkari, who was scheduled to address the gathering, had another important meeting to attend.

Addressing the conclave earlier in the day, BJP national working president J P Nadda said the country has changed under the Narendra Modi-led government which has brought "good days" in the last five years.

-- PTI

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