Voting for Maharashtra local body elections is underway, with the first phase of voting for hundreds of municipal councils and nagar panchayats beginning on Tuesday. These multi-phase elections are being conducted under a Supreme Court directive for local body elections to be completed by
The rally is likely to be attended by various leaders of both the MVA and MNS, including state Congress chief Harshwardhan Sapkal, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray, UBT leader Aaditya Thackeray, and MNS chief Raj Thackeray among others.
Drawing parallels between Bihar CM Nitish Kumar and Maharashtra Deputy CM Eknath Shinde, Sahani said the Mahayuti contested the Maharashtra elections under Shinde's leadership; however, after the results, the BJP left him out.
Raj Thackeray criticised the Election Commission ahead of the local body elections on Monday and claimed that 9.6 million fake voters have been added, as per the information received.
"Local body elections are going to be held across Maharashtra. The agenda for this election will be set in today's (Thursday's) Dussehra rally. Mahayuti will achieve tremendous success in all these elections," Nirupam said on Thursday.
Nagpur and Nashik Police have registered a First Information Report (FIR) against psephologist Sanjay Kumar, co-director of Lokniti-CSDS, following a controversial social media post related to Maharashtra elections.
In a post on social media X, ICSSR alleged that CSDS had also published media stories based on a biased interpretation of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise being conducted by the Election Commission of India.
"There was a slightly unusual increase in the number of voters between the Lok Sabha and assembly elections (in Maharashtra). However, it can happen. Suppose, if the voter list was being updated before the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, maybe a very large number of people were left out. When y