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Maharashtra: Voting begins in Mumbai, 28 other municipal corporations
Voting is underway for 29 municipal corporations in Maharashtra, including the Mumbai civic body, on Thursday. The results of the elections will be declared on Friday.
Voting began at 7.30 am and will end at 5.30 pm.
Across the state, 3.48 crore voters are eligible to decide the fate of 15,931 candidates, PTI reported.
Voters in cities other than Mumbai will cast multiple votes for the first time to choose several corporators for each ward under the panel system. Electors in Mumbai will have to cast a single vote due to the traditional one-ward-one-corporator model.
Dozens of senior police officers, along with 11,938 constables and 42,703 home guards have been deployed across the state to maintain law and order, The Hindu reported. Fifty-seven companies of the State Reserve Police Force have been deployed.
The six major political parties in the fray in the municipal elections are the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Congress, and the two factions of the Shiv Sena and the Nationalist Congress Party. The parties have entered into several different alliances across the 29 municipal corporations.
In Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad, Ajit Pawar's faction of the NCP will contest the elections in alliance with the Sharad Pawar-led faction of the NCP.
In Mumbai, the BJP has retained its alliance with the Shiv Sena group led by Eknath Shinde, while the NCP faction headed by Ajit Pawar is contesting independently.
The Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) has allied with its former rival, the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, along with the NCP faction headed by Sharad Pawar. The Congress has entered into a coalition with Prakash Ambedkar's Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi.
Nearly two weeks before polling took place, 68 candidates of the Mahayuti coalition were elected unopposed in the municipal elections. The wins had become clear after the deadline to withdraw nominations ended on January 2.
Several candidates of the Opposition alliance had withdrawn their nominations.
Of the 68 candidates who won unopposed, 44 belonged to the ruling BJP. Its ally, the Shinde Sena won 22 seats unopposed. The remaining two were won by Ajit Pawar's NCP group. The wins themselves were not enough for the ruling alliance to clinch control of any municipal corporation.
However, the Maharashtra State Election Commission sought reports from these municipal corporations amid the Opposition's allegations of irregularities in the filing of the poll nominations.
In the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, which is India's richest civic body with an annual budget of more than Rs 74, 400 crore, over 1.03 crore voters will cast their ballots to elect 227 corporators, with about 1,700 candidates in the fray, in elections being held after a four-year delay.
More than 28,000 police personnel have been deployed across Mumbai to maintain law and order.
Ahead of the Mumbai civic polls, the Thackeray cousins joined hands two decades after Raj Thackeray left the Shiv Sena to form the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena.
The two parties have the support of the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar).
While the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) is contesting 163 seats, the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena is vying for 53. The Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) is contesting 11 seats.
The BJP is contesting 137 seats in the Mumbai municipal body, while the Shinde Sena is contesting 90.
Source: Scroll
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