The Election Commission of India will announce the voting dates for Maharashtra and Jharkhand this afternoon. The poll body will announce at 3:30 pm today. The Chief Election Commissioner said with elections, were are setting gold standards, referring to the 'free and fair elections' in Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir. Over 12 crore voters are eligible to vote in the two states.
In 2019, the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), comprising a then unified Shiv Sena and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), along with the Congress, had won 154 of 288 seats. This time, the Shiv Sena and NCP split into two factions.
Meanwhile, in Jharkhand, Chief Minister Hemant Soren’s Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) is ready to lock horns with the BJP. In the 2019 elections, JMM won 30 seats and formed the government with the Congress, which has won 16 seats.
