Reportedly the MVA lineup has congress fielding candidates in 102 seats, shiv sena (UBT) in 94, and Sharad Pawar’s ncp (SP) in 85. The SP has nominated candidates for nine seats, while the Peasants and workers party of india is contesting four. Other parties like raj Thackeray’s maharashtra navnirman sena (MNS), Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj party (BSP), and Prakash Ambedkar’s Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA) could influence outcomes in certain constituencies. The MNS is contesting 135 seats, the BSP is fielding candidates in all 288 constituencies, and the VBA is contesting 110 seats.
Meanwhile smaller but notable parties also include the Mahadev Jankar-led Rashtriya Samaj Paksha (RSP), Chandrashekhar Azad’s azad Samaj party, and Asaduddin Owaisi’s All india Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM). The RSP is running in 151 seats, Azad’s party in 40, and AIMIM in 16. A victory in the recent haryana elections, however, appeared to have turned the tide in favour of the BJP-led Mahayuti, re-energising its cadre and allowing the party to recalibrate its strategy for the assembly polls.
Moreover uddhav Thackeray’s shiv sena (UBT) and Eknath Shinde’s shiv sena are in direct contests in 47 maharashtra assembly seats, while Ajit Pawar’s ncp and Sharad Pawar’s ncp (SP) are competing with each other in 38 seats for the elections to be held on november 20, poll data analysed by News18 shows. The results for all 288 seats in the assembly will be declared on november 23.
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