Ahead of the Maharashtra assembly elections, Yugendra Pawar, the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharad Chandra Pawar faction) candidate for the Baramati seat, on Monday expressed confidence that the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance would secure a significant win, with close to 175 or 180 seats. Pawar also claimed that the Mahayuti alliance would fall short of the 175-seat mark in the assembly elections.

"I don't think that they'll (Mahayuti) get 175 seats. The Maha Vikas Aghadi will get maybe close to 175 or 180 seats. On November 23, we will get to see what the exact margin is...Victory will be ours...Water is a very big issue. Unemployment, increasing crime rates and corruption, all are big issues and we'll work on all of these issues...The country in general at large has always been secular," he said while speaking to ANI.