Maharashtra-Jharkhand Assembly Election 2024: Voting is being held today (20 November 2024) under the first phase on 288 seats to elect the next government of Maharashtra. At the same time, voting is taking place on the remaining 38 seats of Jharkhand under the second phase. Counting of votes in both the states will take place on Saturday. After this the path for the new government will be cleared.
Currently, there is a coalition government of Congress and Jharkhand Mukti Morcha in Jharkhand and Hemant Soren is the Chief Minister. On the other hand, in Maharashtra, there is a grand alliance government of BJP, Shiv Sena Shinde faction and NCP Ajit Pawar faction. Eknath Shinde is the Chief Minister of the state. Here we are telling you 10 big things related to the elections of both the states…
Understand Jharkhand in 9 points and maharashtra assembly elections movement of
- Maharashtra, which has 288 assembly seats, is between the ruling grand alliance – Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena, the BJP and Ajit Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party – and the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi, an alliance of NCP’s Sharad Pawar faction, Shiv Sena’s Uddhav Thackeray faction and the Congress. There is a tough competition going on.
- This is the second chance for the ruling alliance to make gains in the state, which did not get much success in the Lok Sabha elections held a few months ago.
- Mahayuti is largely dependent on the welfare schemes of the Eknath Shinde government, especially the “Ladli Behan Yojana”. Shinde has said that his schemes cover every section of the society.
- The opposition hopes that this election will be on the lines of Lok Sabha elections. A clear show of support from the people after the political turmoil of the last two years which included rebellion and split in Shiv Sena and NCP and the toppling of the Uddhav Thackeray government.
- The opposition has built its campaign around quota, caste census, agricultural issues and welfare schemes, but party sources say the results are expected to depend mostly on local issues.
- There is also uncertainty regarding the top post on both sides. Eknath Shinde That Shiv Sena wants to see him again on the top post. Many surveys have declared him a popular leader, but Devendra Fadnavis, who missed the post last time due to the BJP’s compulsion to keep Shinde and his rebels happy, is ahead in the race for CM. This time he was appointed as the chief strategist of the party. Amit Shah Has also received support.
- Uddhav Thackeray is hoping for CM post in the opposition MVA, but Congress may thwart him, which Lok Sabha electionsDespite his excellent performance in the state, he is not ready to back down. Senior party leader Prithviraj Chavan clarified that the party which has more MLAs will get the top post.
- In Jharkhand, this second phase of elections will decide the electoral fate of ruling Jharkhand Mukti Morcha Chief Minister Hemant Soren, his wife Kalpana Soren and opposition leader Amar Kumar Bauri.
- The contest in the 2019 assembly elections was close, with JMM winning 30 seats and BJP securing 25 seats, up from 37 in 2014. JMM-Congress-RJD alliance won a comfortable majority with 47 seats.
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