NEW DELHI: Who will be the next chief minister of Maharashtra? It’s advantage Devendra Fadnavis amid suspense over which Mahayuti leader gets the top job. The BJP, with 132 seats – only 12 less than the half-way mark in the 288-member assembly, is the strongest contender for the post and needs only one ally to…
MUMBAI: Six months is a long time in politics. The ruling Mahayuti had suffered a major setback in the state in the Lok Sabha elections. But it has made a crushing comeback in the assembly elections, winning 230 of the state’s 288 assembly seats – at 80%, that’s more than a three-fourths majority. MVA, which…
NEW DELHI: An independent candidate from the Beed assembly seat died when the Maharashtra polls were underway on Wednesday, a police official said.Balasaheb Shinde (43), a resident of Beed city, collapsed at the Chhatrapati Shahu Vidyalay polling booth between 2 pm and 3 pm.He was rushed to a local hospital and later to a private…