India, Feb. 26 -- The Maha Vikas Aghadi is witnessing a tussle between its parties for its lone winnable Rajya Sabha seat in Maharashtra. Days after the Shiv Sena said it has "first right" over the seat, the Congress has now staked claim to it citing its national party status.

In view of this, senior leaders of the MVA alliance constituents, including Congress, Shiv Sena (UBT) and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), met in Mumbai on Thursday to hold discussions on the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections and the seat allocation with regards to it, PTI news agency reported.

Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray had last week seemed to stake his party's claim to the lone winnable seat for the MVA in the Rajya Sabha. However, following this Congress...