Gearing up for the polls, Central Election Committee of the Congress party held a meeting for the second time on Thursday. It has been reported that the party has finalized 100 candidates for the Maharashtra polls so far.
Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee president Balasaheb Thorat told reporters that the names for 45 seats have already been sent by the screening committee and 32 more names were approved.
According to the insider’s report, the name of former Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan is being considered by the party for the Satara by-poll. Satara by-poll was necessitated as the sitting Nationalist Congress Party MP Udayanraje Bhosale joined the saffron party. Udayanraje Bhosale has said that he was very much impressed with the policies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He has been representing the Satara Lok Sabha seat in Maharashtra.
What to look out in Maharashtra elections-
Upcoming Maharastra polls have charged up the political atmosphere as Congress and NCP have already decided to fight on 123-125 seats each respectively. The alliance of the two parties would leave 41 constituencies for smaller allies in the state.
On the other hand, ruling party BJP has almost finalized the talks of seat-sharing with Shiv Sena. It is expected that the saffron party will contest on 144 seats while Shiv Sena will contest on 126 seats. Remaining 18 seats out of a total of 288-seater basket will be offered to smaller regional parties, as per the reports.
The upcoming polls will be a tough battle as major parties are allying with each other to give each other stiff competition.
Important Dates for Maharashtra Polls-
- The detailed notification will be issued on September 27.
- Filing of nominations for will begin from September 27 to October 4.
- Scrutiny of applications will be done on October 5.
- Nominations withdrawal can be done till October 7.
- Elections will take place on October 21.
- Counting of votes will be done on October 24.