Maha Vikas Aghadi महाविकास आघाडी
Abbreviation	MVA
Leader	Aditya Thackeray (Leader of the largest opposition party,SS (UBT))
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; 5 years ago (2019-11-26)
Preceded by	Maha Aghadi
Ideology	Liberalism Gandhism Secularism (Indian) Marathi Regionalism
Political position	Centre tocentre left
National affiliation	INDIA
Colours	Blue
Rajya Sabha	7 / 19
Lok Sabha	31 / 48
Maharashtra Legislative Council	17 / 78
Maharashtra Legislative Assembly	48 / 288
Politics of India Political parties Elections

TheMaha Vikas Aghadi (Marathi: महाविकास आघाडी;transl. Grand Development Front; abbreviated asMVA), is a state-levelpolitical alliance ofcentre tocentre-left^[a] political parties in the Indian state ofMaharashtra. It is one of the two major political alliances in Maharashtra, the other one beingMaha Yuti. The alliance was formed under the leadership ofUddhav Thackeray ofSHS (UBT) (thenShiv Sena),Sharad Pawar of theNCP(SP) (thenNCP) andSonia Gandhi of theINC, along with the support from thePWPI,CPI(M) and several other political parties.^{[2][3][4][5][6]} Most of the MVA constituents are members of theIndian National Congress-ledIndian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance atpan-India level. The MVA alliance won 30 seats out of 48 seats in the2024 Lok Sabha Election in Maharashtra whereas on the other hand, the MVA suffered a setback in 2024, when it could only win a record low of 50 seats (including 2 of SP, which has left the alliance) in the2024 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election, with none of the parties even managing to get the number of seats to have a leader of opposition in the assembly. This stripped its status as the official opposition in theMaharashtra Legislative Assembly.

The alliance was formed by non-NDA political parties in Maharashtra as a result of2019 Maharashtra political crisis where theShiv Sena left the NDA post-polls over differences with the BJP in their preferred candidates forChief Minister and other important portfolio positions after the2019 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 inModi's cabinet,Arvind Sawant, tendered his resignation.^[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 19thChief Minister of Maharashtra state.^[8][9]

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."^[10]

In the2024 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election, the governingMaha Yuti won a large majority. The MVA won only 50 seats in the legislative assembly, with none of its constituent parties winning enough seats to nominate a leader of the opposition.^[11]

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

A political crisis in the Indian state ofMaharashtra occurred on 21 October 2019 after the declaration of results of the2019 legislative assembly election over the formation of a newstate government. The incumbentBharatiya Janata PartyShiv 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 OppositionINC-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 establishBJP-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 ahead of theNo-confidence motion.Eknath Shinde took oath as the new Chief Minister withDevendra 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 MinisterPraful Patel take oath as Cabinet Minister inEknath Shinde-ledGovernment of Maharashtra.

• Note: MPs in theRajya Sabha AndLok 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			16 / 288	7 / 78	14 / 48	3 / 19
	Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray)			20 / 288	7 / 78	9 / 48	2 / 19
	Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar)			10 / 288	3 / 78	8 / 48	2 / 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	0 / 78	0 / 48	0 / 19
Total				48 / 288	18 / 78	31 / 48	7 / 19

Year	Seats won/ Seats contested	Change in Seats	Voteshare (%)	+/- (%)	Popular vote
2024	31 / 48	32	43.71%	11.14%	25,015,819

Year	Seats won/ Seats contested	Change in Seats	Voteshare (%)	+/- (%)	Popular vote
2024	50 / 288	26	35.16		22,710,220

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• Political party alliances in India

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