Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party candidate from Nagpur South-West Assembly seat, Devendra Fadanvis filed his nomination on Friday and thanked Bharatiya Janata Party and its top leaders for giving him a ticket for the sixth time.
In preparation for the Maharashtra Assembly elections, a crucial meeting was held in Delhi on Thursday between Home Minister Amit Shah and leaders of the BJP-led Mahayuti alliance.
All three parties had already released their initial lists of candidates, but 106 seats remained unannounced. Among these, 20 to 25 seats were contentious, with claims from all three parties. This meeting aimed to address these disputes.
The Nationalist Congress party (Sharad Pawar faction) on Thursday announced a list of 45 candidates for the upcoming Assembly elections in Maharashtra scheduled for November 20.
The Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance--comprising the Congress, the NCP (Sharad Pawar faction), and the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT)--will contest 85 seats each in the upcoming Maharashtra assembly elections.
Amid the ongoing tussle in the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance over a seat-sharing agreement for upcoming Maharashtra Assembly elections, Congress leader and Maharashtra Leader of Opposition Vijay Wadettiwar on Wednesday said that the decision on the five seats will be taken by high-command
Residents of South Pune on Wednesday "threatened" to boycott the upcoming Maharashtra assembly polls and alleged that the civic body failed to address their basic issues from 2017.
With weeks to go for the Maharashtra assembly polls, a team of Election Commission confiscated Rs 22. 90 lakh from a trader in Maharashtra's Pune, police said.
Following the seizure of Rs 5 crore in cash from a car by Pune rural police, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray expressed concerns about transparency, saying that if the Election Commission (EC) is neutral, it will be known to whom the money belongs.