There are about five Assembly seats in Mumbai that don’t have keen takers in the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), even as the alliance partners are in the process of reaching consensus on a seat-sharing formula for the metro’s 36 seats. These constituencies in less demand are the traditional strongholds of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). In Mumbai, both Shiv Sena (UBT) and Congress are keen to contest as many seats. The Sena has demanded about 20-22 and the Congress 14-16 spots, but no finality has been achieved yet. The Nationalist Congress Party (SP) and Samajwadi Party also want a fair share in the city.

Sena UBT chief Uddhav Thackeray, NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar and Congress leader Prithviraj Chavan at a meeting earlier this year. FILE PIC