Raj Thackeray Asks Party Workers to Be Ready to Contest 225-250 Seats in Maharashtra Assembly Polls
News 18MNS chief Raj Thackeray on Thursday asked the party workers to be prepared to contest 225-250 out of the 288 seats of the Maharashtra assembly in the coming elections, a senior party leader said. Talking to reporters after a meeting here, MNS leader Bala Nandgaonkar said party functionaries will visit different regions of the state and give a report to Thackeray about election preparations. ”Raj Thackeray asked party workers to be prepared to contest 225 to 250 seats in the assembly elections,” Nandgaonkar said. Sandeep Deshpande, another party leader, said that at the meeting Thackeray noted that the Opposition’s Maha Vikas Aghadi — of which the Shiv Sena is a part — got anti-Narendra Modi votes in Muslim-dominated areas, but did not get much support in Marathi-speaking areas.