A high-octane ballot campaigning got here to an finish on Monday with the stage set for Mahayuti vs Maha Vias Aghadi (MVA) battle. The 288-legislative meeting seats of Maharashtra will vote on November 20 whereas the counting of votes will happen on November 23. The MahaYuti alliance, comprising the BJP, Shiv Sena, and NCP, is aiming to beat anti-incumbency sentiments and retain energy, whereas the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), together with Congress, Shiv Sena (UBT), and NCP-SP, is hopeful of replicating its earlier success within the Lok Sabha elections by defeating the grand alliance.
Roughly 9.70 crore voters, together with 47,389 people aged between 100 and 150 years, are eligible to solid their votes on November 20. A complete of 4,136 candidates representing 158 events, together with impartial contenders, are competing within the elections. Voting will likely be carried out at 1,00,186 polling stations throughout the state.
Mahayuti’ Ballot Plank
The BJP-led MahaYuti alliance has approached the voters primarily based on two and half years of the state authorities’s work making a powerful pitch for assist for continuity within the state’s growth story. It projected the Maha Vikas Aghadi as one who places brakes and roadblocks within the state’s growth whereas arguing that after the MahaYuti got here to energy key infrastructure initiatives together with Samruddhi Marg, Mumbai Metro, Mumbai Coastal Highway and Atal Setu had been accomplished whereas launching a number of different initiatives. The MahaYuti additionally painted the state’s pre-eminence in attracting home and international direct investments throughout its tenure whereas blaming the Maha Vikas Aghadi for the state shedding its rating throughout its tenure.
The grand alliance is driving on the charisma and recognition of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the state authorities’s freebies together with welfare and growth schemes value Rs 1 lakh crore with a give attention to the Ladki Bahin Yojana. The MahaYuti has promised to extend the tempo of the state’s growth laying emphasis on inclusiveness by its 10 ensures together with the rise in month-to-month profit to Rs 2,100 from Rs 1,500 below Ladki Bahin Yojana, waiver of farmers’ loans, value stabilisation for important commodities, creation of 25 lakh jobs with a month-to-month tuition help of Rs 10,000 for 10 lakh college students by specialised coaching programmes, give attention to photo voltaic and renewable power and making Maharashtra a $1 trillion economic system.
Maha Vikas Aghadi’s Counter
Then again, the Maha Vikas Aghadi has appealed to the voters to vote out the MahaYuti alliance for the flight of capital and investments, farmers’ plight particularly within the wake of accelerating farmers suicides, decrease costs of cotton and soybean in opposition to the assured ones, lack of jobs for youth and educated, rise in circumstances of molestation and rapes, deteriorating regulation and order, rampant corruption, collapse of the Chhatrapati Shivaji statue in Sindhudurg district and its give up earlier than the Delhi seat. The Maha Vikas Aghadi got here out with a “Traitors’ Report” in opposition to the MahaYuti particularly to give attention to the way by which BJP engineered splits within the Shiv Sena and NCP threatening actions from the central probe businesses.
The opposition focused the MahaYuti authorities for the rise within the income and financial deficits particularly on account of dole outs and rising debt burden. In addition they alleged corruption and trade of cash through the award of varied contracts that had been performed by finishing up “non-transparent” tendering processes. Furthermore, the Maha Vikas Aghadi cornered the MahaYuti over the problem of change within the Structure and the scrapping of reservations as performed through the normal elections. The Maha Vikas Aghadi in a bid to checkmate the MahaYuti in its Panchsutri (five-point manifesto) introduced the Mahalakshmi Scheme promising a month-to-month help of Rs 3,000 to ladies and free journey in state transport buses. This aside, the Maha Vikas Aghadi introduced a month-to-month help of Rs 4,000 to unemployed youth, a waiver in crop loans as much as Rs Three lakh and an incentive of Rs 50,000 for many who are repaying the farm loans recurrently.
The Maha Vikas Aghadi additionally assured caste census and elimination of the 50 per cent reservation restrict which is to handle the quota calls for from Maratha, Dhangar, OBCs and Muslim communities. It has additionally assured free medicines and medical insurance coverage of Rs 25 lakh. It additionally promised the voters that the federal government wouldn’t assist a choose few industrialists however take pro-development selections whereas safeguarding the pursuits of all stakeholders.
Key Constituencies And Candidates
Chief Minister Eknath Shinde is engaged in a direct battle in opposition to his mentor and former Thane district chief of Shiv Sena (united) Anand Dighe’s nephew Kedar Dighe from the Kopri-Panchpakhadi constituency in his house turf Thane. The Deputy Chief Minister and senior BJP chief Devendra Fadnavis is pitted in opposition to the Congress nominee Pramod Gudadhe from Nagpur South West constituency.
The NCP President and Deputy Chief Minister AJit Pawar, who abandoned his uncle and joined the MahaYuti in July 2023, is taking up his nephew and NCP-SP candidate Yugendra Pawar from the Baramati constituency. A veteran OBC chief and NCP Minister Chhagan Bhujbal faces a problem for his fifth win in a row within the Yevala seat from NCP-SP candidate Manikrao Shinde from the Maratha neighborhood. The competition is necessary in opposition to the backdrop of latest protests over the Maratha and OBC reservations.
Shiv Sena UBT chief Aaditya Thackeray is locked in a triangular contest in opposition to former union minister and Shiv Sena nominee Milind Deora and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) nominee Sandip Deshpande from Worli constituency with a sizeable Marathi-speaking inhabitants. MNS chief Raj Thackeray’s son and celebration nominee Amit Thackeray throughout his electoral debut faces a problem from Shiv Sena’s three-term legislator Sada Sarvankar and Shiv Sena UBT nominee Mahesh Sawant from Mahim constituency.
State Congress chief Nana Patole is preventing in opposition to the BJP nominee Avinash Brahmankar from the SAakoli constituency. Congress nominee and former minister Amit Deshmukh, who’s the son of former chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, is engaged in a direct battle in opposition to BJP nominee Archana Patil, who’s the daughter-in-law of veteran Congress chief and former union minister Shivraj Patil, from Latur metropolis.
His brother Dhiraj Deshmukh is taking up BJP’s member of the legislative council Ramesh Karad, an schooling baron, from the Latur rural constituency. Mumbai BJP chief Ashish Shelar is pitted in opposition to Congress nominee Asif Zakaria from Bandra West constituency, state meeting speaker Rahul Narwekar in opposition to Congress nominee Hira Devasi from Colaba seat, BJP minister Mangalprabhat Lodha in opposition to Shiv Sena UBT nominee Bhairu Chaudhari from Malabar Hill constituency and former BJP spokesperson Shaina NC, who’s now Shiv Sena nominee, in opposition to Congress candidate Amit Patel from Mumbadevi constituency.
NCP Minister Hasan Mushrif is pitted in opposition to NCP-SP nominee Samarjeetsingh Ghatge from Kagal constituency, one other NCP minister Dhananjay Munde in opposition to NCP-SP nominee Rajesaheb Deshmukh from Parli, state BJP chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule in opposition to Congress candidate Suresh Bhoyar and BJP minister Atul Save in opposition to MIM candidate and former MP Imtiyaz Jaleel from Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar East. Former minister Harshvardhan Patil, who left the BJP and joined the Sharad Pawar faction, is locked in a direct battle in opposition to NCP nominee Datta Mama Bharne.
Former union minister and BJP MP Narayan Rane’s son and celebration nominee Nitesh Rane is in search of re-election from the Kankavli seat in opposition to Shiv Sena UBT nominee Sandesh Parkar. Rane’s different son and former MP Nilesh Rane left BJP and joined Shiv Sena earlier than the final date of submitting nominations. Nilesh Rane is locked in a direct battle in opposition to Shiv Sena UBT nominee Vaibhav Naik from the Kudal constituency. Naik had defeated Narayan Rane, who had contested because the Congress nominee within the 2014 elections.
Former minister and NCP nominee Nawab Malik is contesting in opposition to Samajwadi Get together nominee Abu Azmi from the Mankhurd-Shivajinagar constituency whereas Malik’s daughter and NCP candidate Sana Malik is pitted in opposition to NCP-SP nominee Farhad Ahmad from Anushaktinagar seat. NCP-SP nominee Jitendra Awhad is preventing in opposition to his former affiliate and the NCP candidate Najeeb Mulla from the Mumbra-Kalwa constituency. (With IANS inputs)
