The Election Commission on Tuesday announced the schedule for Maharashtra Assembly Elections 2024. According to the ECI, voting for the Maharashtra polls will take place in a single phase on November 20. The counting of votes will take place on November 23.
The Maharashtra Legislative Assembly has a total of 288 seats. The term of the state assembly ends on November 26, 2024. With the announcement of election dates, the Model Code of Conduct has come into place in the state.
Maharashtra has a total of 9.63 crore electors, of which, 4.97 crore are male voters and 4.66 crore are female voters. There are 1.85 crore young voters (20-29 years of age).
The elections come days after polls were held in Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir. While the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won the Haryana Assembly Elections, the NC-Congress alliance emerged victorious in Jammu and Kashmir.
The Maharashtra Assembly is currently led by the Mahayuti alliance led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The current government’s strength is BJP (102), NCP (40), SHS (38), BVA (3), PHJSP (2), RSP (1), JSS (1), MNS (1), IND (14).
The opposition has 71 MLAs: INC (37), SS(UBT) (16), NCP(SP) (12), SP (2), CPI(M) (1), PWPI (1). The other party is AIMIM (2) while there are 15 vacant seats in the State Legislative Assembly at present.
Earlier on Tuesday, Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Priyanka Chaturvedi says, “…We won the elections and trust of the people in Lok Sabha elections. Everyone was waiting for this…This (state) government has only worked for the central government. They know this is their last stage. We are waiting for the elections to be conducted as soon as possible, so that the government against the Maharashtra, changes.”
Shiv Sena MP Naresh Mhaske said, “After seeing the results of the Haryana Assembly elections, they (Congress people) are mentally disturbed. They had spread a fake narrative of protecting the Constitution of India, during the Lok Sabha elections. But now the people know that Congress lies to them. Even when the Congress government was in power, voting was done through electronic means…Pakistan’s government has said that they were on the same page as Congress on the Kashmir issue. They (Congress) should first give answers on that… Now, the people know the truth that’s why they are not going behind the Congress party.”
