Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], November 21 : After the assembly results, leaders of Mahayuti will sit together and decide who will be the Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Shiv Sena MP Shrikant Shinde said on Thursday.
Speaking to ANI, Kalyan MP further said that there is "no competition" among leaders in the alliance to become the CM.
"All leaders (of Mahayuti) will sit together and decide. There was never a competition among leaders here to be the CM. We want to form govt to do more development work in the next five years. In the last 2.5 years, Maha Vikas Aghadi only discussed who will be the CM; Daily they only discussed this. Their message did not even reach the public," Shinde told ANI.
Reacting to Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Uddhav Thackeray's 'note jihad' dig at BJP, Shiv Sena MP said that this is their attempt to set a "false narrative."
"The way they (Opposition) spread fake narrative in Lok Sabha elections...This was an attempt to set a false narrative before the public during (Maharashtra) elections," he added.
On Tuesday Uddhav Thackeray took a scathing jibe at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the cash-for-votes allegation against BJP leader Vinod Tawde.
In Maharashtra, the ruling Mahayuti is poised to retain power in Maharashtra and the NDA also has an edge to form government in Jharkhand, exit polls predicted on Wednesday as polling concluded in the two states.
Most exit polls also predicted that Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) would put up a strong show in polls but is unlikely to cross the majority mark in the 288-member assembly.
According to the P-MARQ exit poll, the Mahayuti alliance would win 137-157 seats whereas the Maha Vikas Aghadi would get 126-147 seats and others 2-8 seats.
Chanakya Strategies projected that Mahayuti will win 152-150 seats, MVA 130-138 seats, and others 6-8 seats.
In Maharashtra, the primary contest is between the BJP-led Mahayuti alliance and the Congress-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA).
The ruling BJP-led Mahayuti alliance includes the BJP, Shiv Sena, and the Nationalist Congress Party, while the opposition MVA comprises the Congress, Shiv Sena (UBT), and the NCP (Sharad Pawar faction).
This election is significant as it is the first assembly poll in the state following the splits in Shiv Sena and NCP.