Breaking News: Maharashtra To See Assembly Elections On November 20Â
Breaking News: Maharashtra To See Assembly Elections On November 20Â
The Election Commission Of India today announced the Assembly elections 2024 schedules for Maharashtra and Jharkhand. The elections will take place in a single phase in Maharashtra on November 20 and the votes will be counted on November 23, the Election Commission has announced.
The Maharashtra assembly’s term will end on November 26, while the term of Jharkhand assembly is due to end on January 5, 2025.
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The Chief Election Commission said there are 288 assembly seats in Maharashtra spread across 36 districts. There are 25 ST seats and 29 SC seats.
In Maharashtra, there are 1,00,186 polling stations, 52, 789 locations, with urban area polling stations of 57,582, with average voter per polling stations is 960. This year also there would be PwD and women managed and 530 model polling stations, announced the CEC during the press conference.
The much anticipated elections in Maharashtra state will see a tough battle between two key alliances – the current Mahayuti alliance (BJP, Shiv Sena and NCP) and the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) (Congress, Shiv Sena UBT and NCP-SP).
On October 13, the leaders of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), Uddhav Thackeray, Sharad Pawar and Nana Patole held a joint press conference and released a “chargesheet of corruption” against the Mahayuti government, giving details of the alleged scams, mismanagement and lapses in law and order in the Maharashtra state.
