Maharashtra Lok Sabha Election Results 2024: Shiv Sena leader blames overconfidence, seat-sharing changes for losses

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Shiv Sena spokesperson Sanjay Shirsat said on Thursday that the party's defeat after the Maharashtra Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 was due to overconfidence and seat-sharing survey amendments.

The ruling Mahayuti alliance in Maharashtra, which includes the BJP, Shiv Sena, and NCP, won 17 of the state's 48 Lok Sabha seats. The Shiv Sena won 7 of 15 seats, the BJP won 9 of 28, and the NCP won 1 of 4 seats. Their ally, the RSP, competed for one seat but lost.

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The opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), which includes the Congress, the Shiv Sena (UBT) led by former Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, and the NCP (SP) led by Sharad Pawar, won 30 seats.

Shirsat told reporters that the party acknowledges the people's mandate and stressed the significance of mending one's own shortcomings rather than condemning others while commenting about the Maharashtra Lok Sabha Election Results 2024.

"The true epicentre of our seat-sharing was surveys. The changes that were done in the name of these surveys caused losses to us and I accept it clearly. Someone brings one survey, someone comes with another. This survey says this...this survey says that...we had overconfidence due to these surveys. We faced losses due to this," Shirsat stated saying their losses were the product of overconfidence.

He pledged that the faults would be remedied and that all parties in the Mahayuti alliance would work together to ensure that similar errors did not occur again.

Maharashtra Lok Sabha Election Results 2024: Fadnavis offers to quit over losses

Taking full responsibility for the party's bad performance in Maharashtra, Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has pledged to leave the government and work full-time for the BJP to recoup the LS defeat in the 2024 Winter Assembly elections. He stated that he would formally request that the party leadership relieve him of his duties. He remained in place despite the state BJP core committee leaders' insistence that he not leave the tri-party government.

"It is my responsibility. I lacked somewhere, but I will try to recover the losses in the Assembly elections. I take sole responsibility for the setback my party has received in Maharashtra. I will request the party leadership to relieve me from the position in the government so that I can give more time to the party organisation. I will stay out of the government and work full-time for the party," he said, adding, "I'm not a person who will lose [courage]. I will work harder than ever," Fadnavis said.