The voting in Maharashtra concluded on October 21 and the results for the assembly elections will be announced on October 24. The election was held for 288 assembly seats of Maharashtra, of which the BJP contested 150 and the Shiv Sena 124. Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis is confident that the Bharatiya Janata Party and Shiv Sena alliance will get a two-third majority and will form the government against in the state.
Here are key candidates of Maharashtra Assembly Elections 2019:
For the very first time that a member of the Thackeray family is contesting an election. Yuva Sena chief Aaditya Thackeray, son of Uddhav Thackeray, and grandson of Bal Thackeray is contesting. He is contesting from Worli assembly constituency in Mumbai.
Ashok Chavan is a Congress leader who served as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra from December 2008 to November 2009. Chavan is pitted against BJP candidate Bapusaheb Gorthekar.
Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis is the contested election from Maharashtra’s Nagpur South West constituency. He is currently leading. In the last assembly polls in 2014, he had defeated Prafulla Gudadhe-Patil of Congress.
Son of former Maharashtra Chief Minister Late Vilasrao Deshmukh is making an electoral debut on a Congress ticket in the upcoming Maharashtra Assembly Elections. He will contest from the Latur Rural constituency. Dhiraj's brother, Amit Deshmukh is the sitting Congress MLA from the neighbouring constituency Latur City and is seeking a third term this time.
Former Mumbai police officer and encounter specialist Pradeep Sharma is contesting election from Nalasopara constituency for the assembly elections in Maharashtra. He is contesting the polls against Bahujan Vikas Aghadi (BVA) candidate Kshitij Thakur who also filed his nomination the same day.
Ajit Pawar, Sharad Pawar’s nephew is seeking a seventh term from the Baramati assembly constituency this year. He is pitted against BJP fielded Gopichand Padalkar, a leader of the Dhangar community that has a significant presence in Baramati.
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