The Election Commission of India released the Maharashtra polling dates this afternoon. Voting in Maharashtra will take place on November 20 and will be counted three days later, on November 23.
Meanwhile, Jharkhand will vote in two stages on November 13 and 20. Both states’ votes will be counted on November 23. The Chief Election Commissioner stated that through elections, we are setting gold standards, alluding to the ‘free and fair elections’ in Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir. More than 12 crore citizens are eligible to vote in the two states.
In 2019, the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), comprising a then unified Shiv Sena and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), along with the Congress, had won 154 of 288 seats. This time, the Shiv Sena and NCP split into two factions.
Meanwhile, in Jharkhand, Chief Minister Hemant Soren’s Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) is ready to lock horns with the BJP. In the 2019 elections, JMM won 30 seats and formed the government with the Congress, which has won 16 seats.
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Source: NDTV
