MVA's sense of unity broke down during assembly polls: Thackeray

There was a sense of unity and belonging within the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, but that soon morphed into ego clashes and a focus on securing individual party victories during the assembly elections, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray said amid speculations of a thaw in the relations between Thackeray and his former ally chief minister Devendra Fadnavis.

- Surendra P Gangan

In an interview with Saamana, the mouthpiece of Sena (UBT), Thackeray lamented that his party had to concede constituencies it had previously won multiple times to its MVA partners during the Lok Sabha polls.

“The seat-sharing parleys (during assembly polls) dragged on till the very last minute. The squabbling (among MVA partners) sent the wrong message about us among the people,” he told Saamana’s executive editor Sanjay Raut on Saturday.