India, July 20 -- Infighting among the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) parties and attempts to score over each other led to the alliance's crushing defeat in last year's assembly elections that saw the ruling Mahayuti coalition return to power with a thumping majority, according to Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray.

In an interview to his party's mouthpiece Saamana published on Saturday, Thackeray said that the MVA's success during the 2024 Lok Sabha elections had gone to their heads, and the parties-Shiv Sena (UBT), Congress and Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar)-were fighting for their own victory rather than the alliance.

The interview, published two days after Thackeray's brief, closed-door meeting with chief minis...