Summary:
The CPI-M too was trying for a seat-sharing deal with the Congress alliance for the Dindori and Palghar Lok Sabha seats. The Janata Dal (S), which in its version as the Janata Party, was a force to reckon with in Maharashtra, may contest from the Aurangabad, Palghar, and Sangli Lok Sabha segments. Maharashtra has not sent a CPI-M nominee to the Lok Sabha after Ramchandra Ghangare who defeated former union minister Vasant Sathe of the Congress from Wardha in 1991. However, parties like the Janata Dal (Secular), Communist Party of India (CPI) and the Communist Party of India- Marxist (CPI-M) are looking at the Lok Sabha polls to revive their fortunes. They were once potent political forces in Maharashtra but gradually saw their space being eroded by changing circumstances..