Dip in voting in four of Beed’s six assembly seats

Maharashtra’s sugarcane crushing play was caught successful a limbo arsenic the question of migrant cane cutters voting had travel up. According to the archetypal proposal of the ministerial committee headed by the Chief Minister, November 15 was expected to beryllium the commencement day of the crushing season. A conception of governmental leaders led by BJP MLA Suresh Dhas from  Majalgaon had asked for the play to beryllium deferred arsenic the day of polls announced by the Election Commission of India was November 20. However, the substance was resolved, with the Sugar Commissioner astatine past issuing licenses connected November 14.

The voting percent autumn shows astir of the cane cutters had already gone away. Of the 8-8.5 lakh cane cutters employed successful the state, 5 lakh are from Beed alone. Another 4 lakh who spell retired of the authorities to harvest are from districts of Ahmednagar, Amravati, Nandurbar and Yavatmal. Some sweetener mills similar the Dharashiv based Natural Sugar and Allied Industries had made arrangements  for cane cutters to question to Beed for voting. But cane cutters who had gone to acold disconnected places were not  capable to travel backmost for voting – which is reflected successful the voting percentage.

Beed is 1 of the districts wherever the OBC versus Maratha consolidation is said to person taken spot and that its effect is expected to beryllium seen successful the polls. Jayant Patil, the NCP(SP) main had alleged that the BJP ensured galore autarkic candidates were successful the fray, which would devour distant into the MVA’s votes. Beed is the location constituency of erstwhile BJP person Gopinath Munde. His girl Pankaja Munde was defeated by the NCP (SP)’s Bajrang Sonawane successful the precocious held Loksabhal polls portion Dhanajay Munde, the authorities agriculture curate is the NCP (AP) campaigner from Parli.