The former Kerala minister noted coalition politics is all about cooperation and reciprocity and gave unity call to take on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)

"In a coalition there has to be give and take. There is no big brother in a coalition. Everyone needs to work unitedly to defeat the BJP," said the senior Congress leader, whose party is a key constituent of the MVA, which also consists of the NCP (SP) and the Shiv Sena (UBT)

The MVA won 30 of the 48 Lok Sabha seats in Maharashtra. Speaking on the occasion, senior Congress leaders expressed happiness over the party's performance in the Lok Sabha polls in Maharashtra, where it bagged 13 seats -- the highest by any outfit -- and asserted their next target is to win the assembly polls as part of the opposition bloc

Chennithala said the Congress winning just one Lok Sabha seat in 2019 in Maharashtra, once the party's stronghold, was insulting.

Citing the Lok Sabha poll results, where the BJP fell short of a simple majority, Chennithala claimed Narendra Modi doesn't have the moral right to take oath as PM again

Congress rebel Vishal Patil, who won the Sangli Lok Sabha constituency as an independent, joined the newly-elected MPs of the party in Maharashtra at the state unit office in south Mumbai. With Patil extending support to the Congress, the party's effective seat tally in the state has gone up to 14

At the meeting, All India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretary Mukul Wasnik moved a resolution thanking party president Mallikarjun Kharge, senior leaders Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra for their support, and it was passed unanimously