Maharashtra By-Elections: Maha: Andheri East Assembly by-election will take place on November 3. It would be interesting to see who will win the upcoming polls in the new political scenario in the state.
AIMIM will contest all elections in Maharashtra from Aurangabad on and the option of entering into alliances is also open, party president Asaduddin Owaisi said on Saturday.
The four districts selected under the Centre's programme for expeditious socio-economic development are Gadchiroli, Osmanabad, Washim and Nandurbar. They collectively comprise 14 assembly segments of the total 288 in the state.
"In Haryana, voters have given a mandate against BJP. In Maharashtra their vote share and number of seats has gone down. In other bypolls, number of Congress candidates have won which shows people are now realising the difference between Congress party's agenda of public welfare and BJP's divisive agenda," he said.
Maharashtra Assembly Election: Party leaders congratulate Devendra Fadnavis. As per official trends by the Election Commission, he is leading from Nagpur South West constituency.
Kurla (SC) Assembly Constituency: With only six candidates in the fray for the Kurla (SC) assembly seat, Shiv Sena's Mangesh Kudalkar has won by defeating NCP’s Milind Bhupal Kamble with a margin of 20927 votes.
With a staggering 3,237 candidates in the fray from among a host of different parties, the contests for the 288 seats promises to be an all-out political war, especially among a few key seats.
The district comprises seven assembly segments - Panvel, Alibaug, Uran, Karjat, Pen, Mahad and Shrivardhan.
Ajit Pawar had on Friday said that some senior NCP leaders had insisted on the arrest of Balasaheb Thackeray in 2000, despite the opposition from some others leaders like himself. "It was a mistake," he had said.A day after senior NCP leader Ajit Pawar said it was a "mistake" to arrest late Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray in 2000, Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Saturday sought his apology over the arrest.
Maharashtra Assembly Elections 2019: Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis is said to enjoy the full confidence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The CM of the most industrialised state in India is gearing up to defend his home-turf of Nagpur in upcoming Maharashtra Legislative Assembly elections 2019. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has fielded Devendra Fadnavis from Nagpur South West assembly constituency.
Referring to desertions from NCP, Fadnavis said party chief Sharad Pawar's situation was like that of the `jailer' in the film "Sholay", who orders half his personnel to go this way and another half that way and finds that nobody is left to follow him.
Nomination forms of 798 candidates were rejected during the scrutiny for the October 21 Assembly elections for 288 seats in Maharashtra.
The last date of filing nomination papers for the polls to the 288-member assembly is October 4, while the date for their scrutiny is October 5.
Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Monday said something that may be a start for party's renewed bid for Maharashtra CM's office post Maharashtra elections.
The Congress on Sunday released its first list of 51 candidates for the next month's Maharashtra Assembly elections, fielding former chief minister Ashok Chavan from the Bhokar constituency and state party chief Vijay alias Balasaheb Thorat from Sangamner.
Talking to PTI, a close aide of Sena chief said, "Aaditya Thackeray's name has been finalised for the Worli assembly segment. Shiv Sena's sitting MLA Sunil Shinde will vacate his place for Aaditya."
This was the first cash seizure in Thane district after the assembly poll schedule for Maharashtra was announced on September 21. Acting on a tip-off, officers stationed at the Chavindra checkpoint spotted a car entering the power loom town.
Ahead of Maharashtra polls, NCP MLA Dilip Sopal and Congress leader Dileep Mane are set to join Shiv Sena today.
Elections are being watched with keen interest in political circles as their results are likely to throw up new leadership equations among parties, especially the BJP, at the local level.
BJP on Monday emerged as the major gainer in the first phase of municipal council polls winning 39 municipal chief's posts of the 147 urban local bodies.
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