As the Maha Vikas Aghadi will be testing easy waters in the Andheri East Assembly bypoll on Thursday, it is likely to face a rather unusual rival in NOTA (None of The Above), a voters’ choice that certain people have been accused of campaigning for. Minus the archrival BJP, the Thackeray Sena’s Rutuja Latke is certain to win. The result will be announced on November 6. Her party will be working on Thursday to bring out more and more voters to the polling stations on a day that has been declared a holiday for the constituency.

“The more the turnout, the more the final count for Latke,” said a Thackeray Sena leader, adding that polling from across the vote bases of three parties, mainly the Thackeray group and the Congress, will define the road ahead for the alliance that ruled the state for two and a half years. It is MVA’s first-ever joint effort after its government collapsed in June this year.