MAHARASHTRA GEARS UP FOR ASSEMBLY POLLS. KEEN CONTEST ON CARDS

■ This is the first assembly election since the split in Shiv Sena and Nationalist Congress Party and a lot is at stake for various players.

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Maharashtra will go to the polls tomorrow in a fierce electoral contest that has major implications for the future of political players in the state with keen contests onthe cards across all regions of the vast state that has 288 assembly seats. Leaders of the ruling Mahayuti alliance and Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) held extensive campaigns and made major pre-poll promises with observers stating that local factors will also have a significant role in deciding the electoral outcome. This is the first assembly election since the split in Shiv Sena and Nationalist Congress Party and a lot is at stake for various players. Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray lost his chief ministerial position due to split in his party in 2022 and the party is keen to prove a point in the assembly polls.