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Meeting elections to the 288-member Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha are by the center of November. Exuding confidence, Maharashtra Pradesh Congress President Nana Patole mentioned final week: “All the issues have been solved. The Congress will contest the bigger variety of seats (within the alliance). We are going to announce our candidates on Vijayadashami (October 12).” He was referring to a composite listing of candidates of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), which has the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray, or UBT) and the Nationalist Congress Social gathering (Sharad Chandra Pawar, or SCP), other than the Congress and smaller events as its members.