In Jharkhand, this is the second phase of elections.
New Delhi:
The elections for Maharashtra's next government – the last and most watched election of the year – began this morning. In Jharkhand, the remaining 38 seats also went to the polls. The counting of votes will take place on Saturday.
Here are the top 10 points of this big story:
Maharashtra, with its 288 seats, has witnessed a bitter battle between the ruling Mahayuthi – Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena, the BJP and Ajit Pawar's Nationalist Congress Party – and the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi, a coalition of Sharad Pawar's faction of the NCP. , Uddhav Thackeray's faction of Shiv Sena and Congress.
For the ruling alliance, this is a second chance to gain an upper hand in the state which had made clear its disapproval of the three parties in the Lok Sabha polls held a few months ago.
The Mahayuthi relies heavily on the social welfare schemes of the Eknath Shinde government, especially the 'Ladli Behen Scheme'. Mr Shinde has said that their plans cover every section of society.
The Opposition hopes that these elections will repeat the pattern of the Lok Sabha poll – a clear show of popular support after the political turmoil of the past two years, which included rebellion and division in the Shiv Sena and the NCP, and the overthrow of the elections. of the Uddhav Thackeray government.
The opposition has built its campaign around quotas, caste census, agrarian issues and social services. But the outcome is expected to depend mainly on local issues, party sources say.
There is also uncertainty on both sides about the top post. Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena wants him to return to the top position. Many studies have declared him a popular leader.
But Devendra Fadnavis, who missed the post last time due to the BJP's drive to keep Shinde and his rebels happy, is waiting in the wings. And this time he is backed by the party's chief strategist Amit Shah.
In the Opposition MVA, Uddhav Thackeray is hoping for the top post. But he could be foiled by the Congress, which, after its stellar performance in the state in the Lok Sabha polls, is unwilling to step aside. Senior party leader Prithviraj Chavan made it clear that the party which has the most MLAs will get the top job.
In Jharkhand, this second phase of elections will decide the electoral fate of the ruling Jharkhand Mukti Morcha Chief Minister Hemant Soren, his wife Kalpana Soren and opposition leader Amar Kumar Bauri, among others.
In the 2019 parliamentary elections, the battle was tight: the JMM won 30 seats and the BJP 25, up from 37 in 2014. The JMM-Congress-RJD alliance won a comfortable majority with 47 seats.
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