Maharashtra is enacting a solitary stage on Wednesday (November 20) to choose the 288-memberAssembly Over 4,000 prospects remain in the battle royal, of which greater than 2,000 are independent challengers.
The judgment Mahayuti partnership is challenging its major resistance the
Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) after the previous’s underperformance in the Lok Sabha political elections previously this year. The Assembly political election outcomes will certainly be proclaimed on November 23.
Let’s have a look at the significant fights unraveling in the 2024 Maharashtra Assembly political elections.
Maharashtra Assembly surveys: Total prospects
Over 9.7 crore citizens will certainly determine the destiny of 4,136 prospects combating in the Maharashtra Assembly surveys.
Among the Mahayuti companions, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has actually fielded prospects on 149 seats, Shiv Sena led by Eknath Shinde is disputing 81 seats and the Ajit Pawar- headed Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has actually offered tickets to prospects in 59 constituencies.
In the resistance MVA, the Congress has actually fielded 101 prospects, Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) or Shiv Sena (UBT) has actually offered tickets to 95 prospects and 86 prospects of NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar) remain in the battle royal.
There will certainly get along competitions in between the allies on some seats.
The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has actually fielded 237 prospects and 17 prospects from the All India Majlis- e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) are additionally in the race.
Maharashtra Assembly surveys: Key fights
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde is attempting to maintain his Kopri-Pachpakhadi seat inThane The Shiv Sena leader is up versus his late advisor Anand Dighe’s nephew, Kedar Dighe, that is disputing on a Shiv Sena (UBT) ticket.
Shinde has actually won the seat for 3 straight terms in 2009, 2014 and 2019. He was initial chosen as an MLA from Thane in 2004.
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Devendra Fadnavis is the BJP prospect from Nagpur South West, which was taken of the Nagpur West seat after delimitation in 2009. The constituency, which has actually been held by Fadnavis considering that 1999, is a BJP fortress.
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Fadnavis’ major competitor is Congress prospect Praful Gudadhe-Patil There are conjectures that the BJP leader can return as primary priest if the Mahayuti creates the federal government once again.
The NCP prospect Ajit Pawar is handling his
nephew Yugendra Pawar from the Pawar family members stronghold ofBaramati The replacement centimeters has actually won the seat for 7 successive terms, while his nephew is making his selecting launching on an NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar) ticket.
Ajit Pawar divided his uncle Sharad Pawar- led NCP and signed up with hands with the Mahayuti partnership last July, taking vow as Deputy CENTIMETERS. In 2019, he won the Baramati Assembly seat on the ticket of the after that concentrated NCP versus BJP’s Gopichand Kundlik Padalkar with a margin of over 1.65 lakh ballots.
The Worli constituency in Mumbai will certainly witness a high-stakes fight in between Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray and Shiv Sena’s Rajya Sabha MPMilind Deora It will certainly be a three-cornered competition as the duo is dealing with a difficulty from Raj Thackeray’s Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) prospect Sandeep Deshpande.
Deora is a previous Congress MP, while Aaditya is the incumbent MLA fromWorli The Shiv Sena (UBT) leader had actually won the seat in the 2019 surveys by a margin of 67,427 ballots versus the then-undivided NCP prospect Suresh Mane.
Maharashtra Congress head of state Nana Patole remains in the battle royal from Sakoli versus the BJP prospectAvinash Anandrao Brahmankar The Congress leader had actually trounced the BJP’s Parinay Ramesh Fuke with a margin of 6,240 enact the 2019 surveys.
It is a warm competition in Mumbai’s Vandre (Bandra) East constituency as NCP’s Zeeshan Siddique handles Uddhav Thackeray’s nephewVarun Sardesai Siddique, the kid of the late NCP leader Baba Siddique, had actually won the seat in 2019 on a Congress ticket.
Sardesai, the Shiv Sena (UBT) prospect, is competing to re-establish his celebration’s hang on the seat after Siddique beat concentrated Sena’s previous mayor Vishwanath Mahadeshwar in the last Assembly political elections by over 5,790 ballots.
MNS prospect Trupti Sawant, a previous Shiv Sena MLA from the constituency, has actually made it a triangular battle.
Senior NCP priest Chhagan Bhujbal is up versus his previous close friend, Manikrao Shinde of the NCP (SP), from the Yeola Assembly constituency. In the 2019 surveys, Bhujbal, the prospect of concentrated NCP, had actually won the seat versus concentrated Shiv Sena’s Sambhaji Sahebrao Pawar.
Former Maharashtra priest Nawab Malik is the NCP prospect from the Mankhurd Shivaji Naga r constituency. Abu Asim Azmi of the Samajwadi Party (SP), an MVA ally, is attempting to maintain the seat versus Malik and Shinde Sena’s Shivaji ‘Bullet’ Patil.
Maharashtra BJP head of state Chandrashekhar Bawankule is disputing from Kamptee, his home lawn in the Vidarbha area. He won the seat thrice in 2004, 2009, and 2014. However, the three-term MLA was decreased in 2019.
Bawankule, the BJP’s Other Backward Class (OBC) face, is dealing with previous Nagpur Zilla Parishad head of state Suresh Bhoyar inKamptee In 2019, BJP’s Tekchand Sawarkar had actually beat Bhoyar by a margin of over 11,000 ballots.
BJP Mumbai head of state Ashish Shelar remains in the battle royal from Vandre (Bandra) West, dealing with Asif Zakaria of the Congress.
Raj Thackeray’s kid and Aaditya’s relative, Amit Thackeray, remains in the race from the Mahim seat inMumbai He is matched versus Shiv Sena’s Sada Sarvankar and Shiv Sena (UBT)’s Mahesh Sawant.
Amit Deshmukh, the late centimeters Vilasrao Deshmukh’s kid, is the Congress prospect from Latur City, dealing with a challenging battle from the BJP’s Archana Patil Chakurkar, daughter-in-law of Shivraj Patil Chakurkar, a previous Union Home Minister.
Amit’s more youthful sibling and the resting MLA Dhiraj is up versus BJP’s Ramesh Karad in the adjacent Latur Rural constituency.
BJP leader Shaina NC is disputing on a Shinde Sena ticket from Mumbadevi versus the resting Congress MLA Amin Patel.
With inputs from companies