"All Nominations Done, Ready To Fight Today": Congress On Maharashtra Poll
NDTV
Over the last two years, Maharashtra has been rocked by political turmoil - highlighted the Shiv Sena split and subsequent collapse of the MVA government,
The Maha Vikas Aghadi has completed nominations for all 288 seats for next month's Maharashtra election, Congress leader Ramesh Chennithala said Wednesday amid speculation of confusion within the alliance over the division of seats.
However, addressing reporters with Nana Patole (the Congress' state unit boss) and senior leader Varsha Gaikwad and Naseem Khan at his side, Mr Chennithala declared, "We are ready to fight this election today."
On Tuesday - as the clock ticked past the deadline for nominations - it appeared the opposition MVA alliance, which consists of the Congress, Uddhav Thackeray's Shiv Sena faction, and the Nationalist Congress Party bloc led by Sharad Pawar - had not formally named candidates for 11 seats.
The Sena (UBT) has won 20 out of the 89 seats it contested, while the Shinde Sena scored 57 out of the 80 seats it fought
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena failed to open its account and got just 1.5 per cent voteshare
Jharkhand assembly election results 2024: "All of you know it is a hard-won victory after the battle between INDIA and the NDA," Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren said
Election Results 2024: Introduced in 2013 following a Supreme Court directive, NOTA offers voters an option to reject all candidates while maintaining ballot secrecy.
PM Modi also offered the Congress and Jharkhand Mukti Morcha congratulations for their win in the election in that state.
However, Salman who got married on Friday night will miss his own wedding reception, scheduled for November 26 in Meerut, due to the district ban imposed just a day before the 'nikah' (wedding).
Maharashtra Election Results 2024: The rebel faction of Eknath Shinde, which has pitched the electoral battle as an acid test of "who is the real Shiv Sena" has lost no time to announce it as an ideological victory.
Meanwhile, as the dust settles after the counting of votes, the identity of the victor of the 2024 Maharashtra Assembly election is settled, and the focus now will be on the next Chief Minister.
The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha leader was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in January and released on bail in June.
Jharkhand Elections Results 2024: JMM chief Hemant Soren and his wife Kalpana are parents to two boys. Sharing a picture of his two sons, he wrote, "My strength."
Overall, the BJP has not only retained the three seats it won in 2022 but also flipped two others - Kundarki and Katehari - while also picking up a sixth from allies NISHAD Party.