Mallikarjun Kharge, Rahul Gandhi, Uddhav Thackeray and Sharad Pawar
The coins of Mahavikas Aghadi do not work in Maharashtra. He had to face defeat in the parliamentary elections. Only 47 seats were accounted for. The impact of the defeat will also be felt in the upper house of parliament. When the three main leaders of the alliance again arrived at the Bundestag, a crisis arose.
Veteran MVA leaders Sharad Pawar, Priyanka Chaturvedi and Sanjay Raut suffered the biggest blow in this defeat. If the three leaders reach the Bundestag again, trouble will loom over them. Although Sharad Pawar has stated that this will be his last term in the Union House. His and Priyanka Chaturvedi’s terms will end on April 3, 2026. Sanjay Raut’s term will end on July 22, 2028.
Understanding the numbers game at the Federal House
Mahayuthi won a landslide victory in the parliamentary elections. Its voting rate was 49.6%. Meanwhile, MVA’s vote share was 35.3%. The BJP-led alliance’s position in the Lok Sabha will become even stronger after its historic victory.
Maharashtra has 19 Lok Sabha seats. Currently, the BJP has 7 MPs, Congress has 3 MPs, Shiv Sena has 1 MP, Shiv Sena (UBT) has 2 MPs, NCP has 3 MPs, NCP (Sharad Pawar faction) has 2 MPs, RPI has 1 councilor.
The Bharatiya Janata Party has 95 members in the House of Commons. Including employees, the number reaches 112. Maharashtra has the largest number of seats in the Lok Sabha after Uttar Pradesh.
Who gets how many votes?
If every MLA votes, the Congress will get 16 votes. Uddav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena will get 20 votes and Sharad Pawar’s NCP will get 10 votes. SP will get 2 votes and CPI-M will get 1 vote. If we talk about the total number of votes for MVA, it is 50 votes. Meanwhile, Mahayuthi has 235 MLAs in Parliament and later received 235 votes in the House of Federation.
According to the Electoral Commission, how many votes do candidates need to receive to become a member of the Bundestag?
What is the formula—— Total parliamentary votes/(state parliamentary seats plus 1) plus 1
According to this formula, a candidate needs 15 votes.
This means the Congress and Shiv Sena (UBT) will be able to send MPs to the Rajya Sabha in the MVA. The MVA can send a total of 3 MPs to the Rajya Sabha. Currently, there are 7 members in the House of Lords. Imran Pratapgarhi, Chandrakant Handkore and Rajini Patel are from Congress, while Priyanka Chaturvedi and Sanjay Raut are from Uddav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena. And Sharad Pawar and Fauzia Khan are from NCP (Sharad faction).
If the Shiv Sena, which has 20 MLAs, sends Priyanka Chaturvedi and Sanjay Raut to the Lok Sabha again, it will need the support of the NCP (Sharad faction) and SP as well as the Congress.
