As per report assembly elections have been announced in maharashtra and with this the phase of leaders changing parties has also started. On the very next day of the election announcement i.e. Wednesday, october 16, congress got a big shock when party general secretary Javed Shroff joined the ajit pawar faction. Javed Shroff joined the ncp in the presence of maharashtra Deputy chief minister ajit pawar and ncp state chief sunil Tatkare. This information has been given on the official X account of NCP. The post reads, "Mumbai congress General Secretary Alhaj Javed R. Shroff joined the Nationalist congress Party. I welcome him wholeheartedly. He is sure that he will make a big contribution to public service by following the ideology of the party."
Meanwhile Chief election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar on tuesday (October 15) announced the dates for the assembly elections in Maharashtra. Voting will be held in a single phase on 288 assembly seats of Maharashtra. The date of voting is 20 November. At the same time, vote counting and declaration of results will be done on 23 november 2024.
Before the maharashtra elections, the ruling Mahayuti alliance and the opposition maha Vikas Aghadi alliance are now brainstorming on the names of candidates along with seat sharing. In the MVA, there has been no consensus on the seat sharing between the congress, shiv sena uddhav thackeray faction and ncp sharad pawar faction. At the same time, the Mahayuti leaders are claiming that consensus has been reached and soon all the information will be shared publicly.