MNS president Raj Thackeray and Shiv Sena president and CM Eknath Shinde.
The horn has sounded for the Maharashtra Assembly elections. Polling will be held on November 20 in Maharashtra. Results will be announced on November 23. This year, Mahayuthi and Maha Vikas Aghadi will face off in the parliamentary elections. As soon as the battle for the assembly elections started, various political parties in the state started campaigning vigorously. There is a lot of publicity going on everywhere right now. Leaders of all political parties are now down to earth and starting to formulate their own political equations.
The time for withdrawing nominations has also passed. In this case, it has now been decided who will compete for a particular seat. The 36 parliamentary seats in Mumbai will be fiercely contested this time. In some seats in Mumbai, there will be a match between Mahayuti vs Mahavikas Aghadi and in some seats, there will be a match between Mahayuti vs Mahavikas Aghadi vs MNS.
MNS candidates occupy 25 out of 36 seats
The Maharashtra Navnirman Sena has fielded candidates in 25 of the 36 assembly seats in Mumbai. Raj Thackeray supported Mahayuthy in the Lok Sabha elections but said he would field as many candidates as possible in the Assembly elections. There is unease within the grand alliance as the MNS fields candidates in 25 seats in Mumbai. There will be a fight between MNS and Mahayuti on all these seats. Of the 25 seats, the BJP is contesting in 17 seats and the Sindhi Shiv Sena is contesting in 16 seats.
Mahim and Worli’s Triangular Race
Mahim and Worli assembly constituencies are set to be one of the high-voltage constituencies in this year’s Mumbai assembly elections. Because there will be competition between MNS, Shinde Group and Thackeray Group in the Mahim and Worli assembly elections. MNS has fielded Amit Thackeray as its candidate from Mahim constituency. He was contested by Mahesh Sawant of the Thackeray faction and Sardar Savankar of the Sindhi faction.
Meanwhile, Aditya Thackeray from the Thackeray Group also bagged the Worli Assembly seat. Milind Deora from Shinde Group and Sandeep Deshpande from MNS have emerged as candidates to contest against him. Therefore, there will be a triangular contest between these two assembly constituencies.
