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With conscionable a time present to spell for the closing of the nominations successful Maharashtra, each eyes are connected the last agelong of the seat-sharing negotiations of the Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance.
MVA constituents Congress, NCP (SP) and Shiv Sena (UBT) had announced that they would contention 85 seats each successful the November 20 polls. Negotiations are inactive connected for the pending seats, with overlapping claims from parties.
On Friday, SP’s Maharashtra president Abu Azmi connected Friday said if the MVA does not scope immoderate statement with smaller allies, it volition tract candidates connected 20-25 seats. The SP has already fielded 5 candidates and has sought 7 seats.
As of Sunday, the parties person successful each declared the names of astatine slightest 250 candidates.
In these seats, the confederation has much oregon little focused connected each party’s spot and has allocated seats to each different accordingly.
An investigation of candidates announced till present shows that the Shiv Sena (UBT), which has declared candidates for 85 seats, has fixed 40 candidates, the highest, for the Konkan portion and the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR). The 2nd highest, 13 candidates, are for Marathwada, portion 11 candidates are for North Maharashtra. It has announced 9 and 7 candidates for Vidarbha and Western Maharashtra, respectively.
The Congress, which has announced a database of 84 candidates, has declared the highest 34 candidates for Vidarbha, 17 for Konkan and MMR, 15 for Western Maharashtra, 14 for Marathwada, and 11 successful North Maharashtra.
The Nationalist Congress Party (SP), retired of 67 of its candidates, has named 29 for Western Maharashtra, 12 for Marathwada, and 8 each from remaining the 3 regions.
Modi, Sanchez successful Ahmedabad
On Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Spanish counterpart Pedro Sanchez volition jointly inaugurate the TATA Aircraft Complex successful Vadodara.
The 2 leaders volition pb a roadshow from the airdrome to the Tata Advanced Systems installation connected Monday morning. After inaugurating the craft complex, Modi and Sanchez volition sojourn the Laxmi Vilas Palace, the residence of the erstwhile Baroda royal family, wherever they volition clasp a bilateral gathering implicit lunch, officials said.
Jharkhand canvass tension
The Hemant Soren-led JMM successful Jharkhand wrote to the Election Commission connected Sunday to request the removal of the state’s Chief Electoral Officer K Ravi Kumar and 2 elder IPS officers — and alleged they were moving successful favour of the BJP.
“Giridih constabulary contiguous intercepted a conveyance carrying Mandal Murmu on with immoderate different persons. When asked, the radical connected committee did not reply arsenic to wherever they were going. So, the constabulary detained the vehicle. Mandal Murmu happens to beryllium 1 of the proposers of Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren, who has filed his information from the Barhait assembly constituency,” JMM spokesperson Supriyo Bhattacharya said.
“Chief Electoral Officer K Ravi Kumar and 2 elder IPS officials, misusing their authoritative position, enactment undue unit connected the Giridih medication to merchandise the vehicle,” helium alleged.Bhattacharya claimed that this was a gross usurpation of the exemplary codification of conduct, and urged the EC to analyse the matter.
When contacted, the CEO said a property league was convened connected Monday connected the issue.
– with PTI inputs
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