The last few days have witnessed bickering between the Maha Vikas Aghadi allies—the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) and the Congress—over several seats, especially in Mumbai, where the Thackeray party had unilaterally announced the names for several seats.

The last friction point came on Wednesday in the form of the Sangli seat, where the Shiv Sena has announced the candidature of Chandrahar Patil despite the Congress coveting the seat for Vishal Patil, the grandson of its one-time chief minister, the late Vasantdada Patil. Thackeray’s logic for taking Sangli was that the Shiv Sena had already conceded its traditional seats like Kolhapur and Ramtek for the benefit of the Congress party.