In effort to seek a better deal in the seat allocations for them in the forthcoming Maharashtra Assembly polls, the Left and progressive parties have asked the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) leadership to adopt an “inclusive approach” towards seat-sharing and accepting pro-people policies.

The Left and progressive parties – comprising Peasants and Workers’ Party (PWP), Samajwadi Party, CPI, CPI-M and Satyashodhak Communist Party (SCP).---are holding a state-level convention at Nashik in north Maharashtra on October 16 to impress upon the MVA leadership to adopt an “inclusive approach” and consider allocating the adequate number of seat to them.

Like the MVA have already done, the Left and progressive parties will adopt resolution at their Nashik convention , vowing to defeat the BJP-led MahaYuti in the forthcoming State Assembly polls.

Leaders of four Left and progressive parties which held an informal meeting on Sunday,  also adopt a resolution asking the MVA leadership to involve the left nd progressive parties in fighting the ruling MahaYuti.

Among other things, the Nashik Convention will also remind the MVA that although it won 31 out of the 48 Lok Sabha seats in the 2024 elections in Maharashtra, with the broad support of all anti-BJP-RSS forces in the state, the difference in the voting percentage between the MVA and the NDA in the state in that election was merely 0.4 per cent (44% to MVA, as against 43.6% to NDA).

The left and progressive parties will also ask the MVA leadesip  take inclusive and comprehensive steps to ensure that the coming Maharashtra assembly elections do not go the Haryana way. The progressive parties authorised Jayant Patil, ex-MLC (PWP), Abu Asim Azmi, MLA (SP), Dr Ashok Dhawale (CPI-M), and Dr Bhalchandra Kango (CPI) to  hold discussions with  the MVA leaders