Maharashtra Assembly elections: A problem of plenty
Updated On: 12 August, 2024 06:40 AM IST | Mumbai | Dharmendra Jore
Chief Minister candidates galore ahead of the October Assembly elections that will have six major parties contesting within and outside their respective alliances
Supriya Sule, Jayant Patil, Devendra Fadnavis, Eknath Shinde and Ajit Pawar
With just 30-40 days to go for the notification of Maharashtra’s Assembly elections 2024, state politics has shifted into top gear. The speed had slowed down a bit after the Lok Sabha elections, but kept a constant pace. Rival sides have been recalibrating things, considering that the Assembly polls will be different from the Parliamentary elections. NDA was left far behind by the MVA in the summer.
The Opposition bloc hopes to translate the Lok Sabha figures into the Assembly majority to install its government this winter. But a dispute seems to have arisen over the projection of the face for the CM’s post though it will depend on the post-result strength of the respective partners. Of MVA, the Shiv Sena (UBT) has been projecting ex-CM Uddhav Thackeray as the natural choice that could pull votes.
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