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Lok Sabha Election 2024: The allies in opposition, Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), have formed a nine-member coordination committee consisting of three leaders from each constituent to discuss seat sharing for the upcoming 2024 Lok Sabha polls. Senior Congress leader Prithviraj Chavan, a member of the committee, confirmed the formation of the panel by the MVA partners.

The Congress, the Shiv Sena (UBT), and the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharad Pawar group) are the constituents of the opposition bloc in Maharashtra, which has 48 Lok Sabha seats, the second highest after Uttar Pradesh (80).

Chavan said his party's leadership will first hold a meeting to decide the position in seat-sharing talks with MVA partners.

"We will then decide the formula of seat-sharing in talks with allies," he told PTI.

Besides Chavan, the other senior leaders of Congress on the panel are Nassem Khan and Basavraj Patil. Khan said that all MVA allies have agreed that the only criteria for the distribution of Lok Sabha constituencies is winnability. The Grand Old Party will hold a region-wise review of all the 48 Lok Sabha seats in the state from October 7 to October 12, said Khan, a former Maharashtra minister. Another Congress eader added that the MVA constituents have to exercise utmost caution while selecting candidates to ensure votes of the Shiv Sena (UBT) and the Congress, who joined hands in 2019 in Maharashtra, are transferred to each other's candidates.

The Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT) is represented in the coordination committee by the senior leader and Rajya Sabha MPs Sanjay Raut, Vinayak Raut, and Anil Desai.

(With input from agencies)