Independent candidate Balasaheb Shinde.
On Wednesday, the 288 assembly seats in Maharashtra went to polls, but a tragic accident happened in Beed.An independent candidate died of a heart attack while voting for the Beed parliamentary seat. The name of the independent candidate was mentioned as Balasaheb Shinde. Workers were shocked by the candidate’s death and were in an uproar.
Balasaheb Shinde is contesting the election as an independent candidate from Beed Assembly constituency. According to information received, Balasaheb Shinde was present at the polling station at Chhatrapati Shahu Vidyalaya in Beed city on the day of polling.
At the same time, he felt dizzy and fell. The staff then took him to a private hospital in Beed. But the private hospital referred him to another hospital. He was admitted to a hospital in Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar for treatment, but doctors declared him brought dead.
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Heart attack at polling station
An independent candidate from Beed suffered a heart attack on Wednesday while waiting to cast his vote at a polling station in Maharashtra state, police said. Amid the chaos, locals rushed him to the hospital, where doctors declared him dead.
According to the Representation of the People Act, 1951, if a candidate dies during the election, voting for the seat in question can be deferred under Section 52.
Mahavikas Aghadi competes with Mahayuti
Beed seat was once a stronghold of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) led by Sharad Pawar. After the split, Ajit Pawar represented a faction of the NCP that was allied with the BJP and the Shiv Sena led by Eknath Shinde.
The main contest in Maharashtra is between the Mahayutthi Alliance (led by the BJP, Eknath Shinde’s Army and Ajit Pawar’s National Congress Party) and Maha Vika Aghadi alliance (led by the Congress, Uddhav Thackeray’s Army and Sharad Pawar’s National Congress Party).
