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.
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Thursday exuded confidence in the Mahayuti alliance's victory in the upcoming elections and said the people of the state are aware of the developmental work done by them in the state.
Chaturvedi on Thursday said that he will win the second with a historic margin. Thackeray is currently an MLA from the Worli legislative assembly constituency and former guardian minister of the Mumbai suburban district.
Congress leader and Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly Vijay Wadettiwar said on Thursday that the problem of seat sharing has been resolved and expressed confidence that the opposition alliance-Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) will cross 200 seats.
"The list of 45 candidates that we have released, most of them are those who supported Hindu Hriday Samrat Balasaheb Thackeray. 4-5 people are chosen new as per a survey and the will of the people. Our strike rate in the Vidhan Sabha elections will be double than that of the Lok Sabha electi
Responding on the seat-sharing arrangement in Maha Vikas Aghadi, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Tuesday said that the list of candidates got delayed because we are going to form a government in the state of Maharashtra. He further added that the list is going to be out at 4 pm today.
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.