While addressing a party meeting, senior NCP leader Chhagan Bhujbal said that when the Ajit Pawar-led NCP joined the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance, it was assured of getting 80-90 seats to fight on in the state elections.
Ruchir Sharma said seats in Maharashtra will be split 50-50 between the NDA and MVA, but the real loss will be in the BJP's allies - NCP and Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena.
All 13 seats of Maharashtra which went to the polls in the fifth phase on Monday were swept by the then BJP-undivided Shiv Sena alliance in 2019, with.