All of Maharashtra’s 288 Assembly seats volition beryllium up for grabs successful a azygous phase. (Express record photograph by Partha Paul)
Maharashtra Assembly Election 2024, Jharkhand Elections Phase 2 Voting Today Live Updates: All eyes are connected Maharashtra and Jharkhand, wherever voters caput to the canvass booths today. On Wednesday, each of Maharashtra’s 288 Assembly seats volition beryllium up for grabs successful a azygous phase, portion Jharkhand gears up for the 2nd phase, with 38 retired of 81 seats inactive successful play successful the 2nd and last signifier of pollin.
Battle for Maharashtra: In Maharashtra, the the ruling Mahayuti coalition—led by the trio of Devendra Fadnavis (BJP), Eknath Shinde (Shiv Sena), and Ajit Pawar (NCP)— volition look disconnected against the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), which includes the Congress, Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena (UBT), and NCP (Sharad Pawar). A household feud is astatine the centre signifier successful Baramati, wherever Deputy CM Ajit Pawar battles his ain nephew, Yugendra Pawar of the NCP (SP). Meanwhile, successful Nagpur South West, Fadnavis is successful a fierce contention with Congress’s Prafulla Gudhade, and Chief Minister Shinde is warring to clasp onto his Kopri-Pachpakhadi spot against Anand Dighe from Sena (UBT).
Jharkhand finale: In Jharkhand, the ruling JMM-Congress confederation is locking horns with the BJP and its section ally, the All Jharkhand Students’ Union Party (AJSUP). Chief Minister Hemant Soren is acceptable to clash with BJP’s Gamaliel Hembrom successful Barhait, portion his wife, Kalpana Soren, aims to fend disconnected a situation from BJP’s Muniya Devi successful Gandey. The Dhanwar spot volition beryllium keenly watched arsenic erstwhile CM Babulal Marandi of the BJP takes connected CPI(ML)L’s Rajkumar Yadav. Additionally, successful Jamtara, Sita Soren, daughter-in-law of governmental heavyweight Shibu Soren, seeks to unseat Congress’s Irfan Ansari.
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