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Modi and Shah finalize candidates for Haryana, Maharashtra elections

Modi and Shah finalize candidates for Haryana, Maharashtra elections
Written by Shalini Ojha
Sep 30, 2019, 10:24 am 3 min read
Modi and Shah finalize candidates for Haryana, Maharashtra elections

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah met on Sunday to finalize the candidates for upcoming assembly elections in Haryana and Maharashtra. The important meeting, held at Delhi headquarters of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), was attended by several leaders, including Working President JP Nadda and Union Minister Nitin Gadkari. As per reports, the first list of candidates will be released on Monday.

Dates
Elections will be held in single phase in both states

Both states, currently governed by BJP, will go to polls on October 21. The results will be announced three days later, on October 24. The last date of filing nomination is October 4, so it was hardly surprising when PM Modi got back to the business of selecting candidates soon after he returned from a week-long trip to the US.

Deal
Apparently, Sena and BJP have finally ironed out their differences

For days now, BJP and Shiv Sena have been struggling to come up with a seat-sharing arrangement for Maharashtra assembly, which has 288 members. At one point, Sena's Sanjay Raut went as far as calling the negotiations more "tedious" than India's partition. Both the parties had ended their alliance before 2014 polls, only to get back together after BJP fell short of a majority.

Seat sharing
Reportedly, Sena got 126 seats, BJP 144

According to NDTV, Sena, led by Uddhav Thackeray, has agreed to field candidates from 126 seats. BJP will get a larger chunk, i.e., 144 seats and 18 seats have been left for smaller allies. Notably, Uddhav's son Aaditya will be fighting polls from Worli assembly constituency in Mumbai, Sena announced on Sunday. With this, Aaditya has become the "first" Thackeray to contest elections.

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Aaditya will contest polls from "easy" constituency Worli

About Aaditya's poll debut, a source told PTI, "Worli is considered one of the safest constituencies for the Sena, hence Aaditya's candidature has been finalized. Former NCP leader Sachin Ahir had recently joined the Sena, which will make Thackeray's win easy."

Expectations
Separately, star-wrestlers might be fielded from Haryana

Meanwhile, in Haryana, incumbent Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar is expected to contest from Karnal. Notably, Haryana nestles 90 assembly seats. The new batch of BJP members, namely wrestlers Yogeshwar Dutt and Babita Phogat, and former hockey captain Sandeep Singh, are also expected to fight polls. Reports suggest Dutt, who has been a fan of BJP's schemes, is likely to be fielded from Sonepat.

Hopes
Will BJP return to power in Maharashtra and Haryana?

Interestingly, Chief Ministers Khattar and Devendra Fadnavis will remain the faces of BJP. The saffron party hopes to return to power riding on "Modi wave", the historic move to abrogate Article 370 in August and the "achievements" of the Centre. Further, 32 assembly seats, spanned across 13 states, will also go to polls. BJP gave a ticket to former Congress member Alpesh Thakor too.

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BJP going to polls based on development work: PM Modi

Joined extensive Central Election Committee meetings for elections in Haryana and Maharashtra. We are going to polls in these states based on our development work and double engine of the Centre and State Governments, led by popular as well as industrious Chief Ministers. pic.twitter.com/Xgptm6wg6f

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) September 29, 2019
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A mathematics graduate, I handle the national desk. Always looking for items to read, I started off as an entertainment beat writer and made the switch three years into my career. My talents include breaking news and being on top of trending topics.
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