Assembly elections: Voting begins in Maharashtra, remaining seats of Jharkhand
Bye-polls in the Nanded Lok Sabha constituency in Maharashtra and 15 Assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Kerala and Uttarakhand are also being held.
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Voting began for all 288 Assembly seats in Maharashtra and 38 out of 81 seats in seats in Jharkhand at 7 am on Wednesday.
Bye-polls in the Nanded Lok Sabha constituency in Maharashtra and 15 Assembly seats spread across Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Kerala and Uttarakhand are also being held simultaneously.
The counting of votes in all states will take place on November 23.
Maharashtra
The ruling Mahayuti alliance, comprising the Bharatiya Janata Party, Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena faction and the Nationalist Congress Party faction led by Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, is competing against the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi.
The Opposition alliance comprises the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray), Sharad Pawar’s faction of the Nationalist Congress Party and the Congress. They are also part of the Opposition INDIA bloc at the national level.
Within the Mahayuti, the Bharatiya Janata Party has fielded 149 candidates, the Shinde Sena is contesting 81 seats and Ajit Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party has named 59 candidates.
On the other hand, the Congress has fielded 101 candidates, the Thackeray Sena has named 95 and the Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party is contesting 86 seats.
The Bahujan Samaj Party is contesting 237 and the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen 17 seats.
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