Maha Vikas Aghadi

Maha Vikas Aghadi
Abbreviation	MVA
Leader	Vijay Namdevrao Wadettiwar (Leader of the Opposition)
President	Uddhav Thackeray
Chairman	Sharad Pawar
Secretary	Balasaheb Thorat
Spokesperson	Clyde Crasto[1]
Lok Sabha Leader	Supriya Sule
Rajya Sabha Leader	Sharad Pawar
Founders	Uddhav Thackeray Sharad Pawar Prithviraj Chavan
Founded	26 November 2019; 4 years ago (2019-11-26)
Preceded by	Maha Aghadi
Ideology	Regionalism Localism[2]
Political position	Big tent[a]
National affiliation	INDIA
Colours	Blue
Lok Sabha	31 / 48
Rajya Sabha	7 / 19
Maharashtra Legislative Assembly	69 / 288
Maharashtra Legislative Council	17 / 78
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The Maha Vikas Aghadi (abbreviated as MVA), is a state-level political coalition formed after the 2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election under the leadership of Uddhav Thackeray of SHS (UBT) (then Shiv Sena), Sharad Pawar of the NCP and Sonia Gandhi of the INC, along with the support from the Samajwadi Party, PWPI, CPI(M) and several other political parties including Independent MLAs.^[3][4] MVA is currently the ^[5][6] official opposition in Maharashtra Legislature.^[7]

Uddhav Thackeray was elected as the president of the MVA after a meeting on 26 November 2019. He took oath of the office and secrecy on 28 November 2019 as the 19th Chief Minister of Maharashtra state.^[8][9]

The alliance was formed by non-NDA political parties in Maharashtra as a result of 2019 Maharashtra political crisis where the Shiv Sena left the NDA post-polls over differences with the BJP in their preferred candidates for Chief Minister and other important portfolio positions after the 2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election. Sharad Pawar, Sanjay Raut, Ahmed Patel and other leaders across the NCP, INC and Shiv Sena worked to realise a new alliance after Shiv Sena and BJP parted ways and Shiv Sena's lone Union Minister in Modi's cabinet, Arvind Sawant, tendered his resignation.^[10]

In 2022, during a party meeting, Uddhav Thackeray explained his move to pull out of NDA. He said, "We supported the BJP wholeheartedly to enable them to fulfill their national ambitions. The understanding was they will go national while we will lead in Maharashtra. But we were betrayed and attempts were made to destroy us in our home. So we had to hit back". Thackeray accused BJP of dumping its allies according to its political convenience. He said, "BJP doesn't mean Hindutva. I stand by my comment that Shiv Sena had wasted 25 years in alliance with BJP."^[11]

Given the varied ideologies among the partner parties, there was a plan to form two committees for guidance of the coalition - a co-ordination committee for implementation of common minimum programme and other higher decision making committee that will include party chiefs.^[12]

A political crisis in the Indian state of Maharashtra occurred on 21 October 2019 after the declaration of results of the 2019 legislative assembly election over the formation of a new state government. The incumbent Bharatiya Janata Party Shiv Sena alliance crossed the majority of 145 seats needed in the assembly by winning a total of 161 seats in the alliance. Individually BJP won 105 and SHS won 56 seats. The Opposition INC-NCP Alliance with 106 seats did not reach the majority mark. Individually INC won 44 and NCP won 54 seats.

Eknath Shinde, a senior Shiv Sena leader, wanted to break the Maha Vikas Aghadi and establish BJP-Shiv Sena coalition again. Subsequently he gathered the support of 2/3rd members of his party.^[13][14] On 29 June, Uddhav Thackeray resigned from the post of Chief Minister as well as MLC member ahead of the no-confidence motion. Eknath Shinde took oath as the new Chief Minister with Devendra Fadnavis as Deputy CM on 30 June.^[15]

Ajit Pawar takes oath as Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Nationalist Congress Party breaks into two camps and 9 NCP MLAs with former UPA Minister Praful Patel take oath as Cabinet Minister in Eknath Shinde-led Government of Maharashtra.

Year	Seats won/ Seats contested	Change in Seats	Voteshare (%)	+/- (%)	Popular vote
2024	31 / 48	25	43.71%	11.14%	25,015,819

• Note: MPs in the Rajya Sabha And Lok Sabha only include those from Maharashtra seats

Party		Symbol	Flag	MLAs in Maharashtra Assembly	MLCs in Maharashtra Council	MPs in Lok Sabha	MPs in Rajya Sabha
	Indian National Congress			37 / 288	7 / 78	14 / 48	3 / 19
	Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray)			16 / 288	7 / 78	9 / 48	2 / 19
	Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar)			12 / 288	3 / 78	8 / 48	2 / 19
	Samajwadi Party			2 / 288	0 / 78	0 / 48	0 / 19
	Communist Party of India (Marxist)			1 / 288	0 / 78	0 / 48	0 / 19
	Communist Party of India			0 / 288	0 / 78	0 / 48	0 / 19
	Peasants and Workers Party of India			1 / 288	1 / 78	0 / 48	0 / 19
	Samajwadi Ganrajya Party			0 / 288	1 / 78	0 / 48	0 / 19
Total				69 / 288	24 / 78	31 / 48	9 / 19