Assembly Elections

MAHARASHTRA: Assembly Election Results: A Preliminary Factual Survey

THE results of the Maharashtra state assembly that were declared on October 19 have led to a hung house. However, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) with 122 seats has emerged for the first time as the single largest party and is set to form the next government. A BJP ally, the Rashtriya Samaj Party has won one seat. The Shiv Sena (SS) with 63 seats has emerged as the second largest party. The Congress (INC) with 42 seats is third and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) with 41 seats is fourth.

Split In Both Major Alliances Leads to an Unprecedented Free-For-All Fight

AFTER over a month of pretence at negotiations over seat-sharing, both the major alliances in Maharashtra finally announced their split on September 25. The Shiv Sena-BJP communal combine which was formed in 1989, broke up after 25 years; and the Congress-NCP alliance which was formed in 1999, split after 15 years. With all these four parties now contesting the state assembly polls separately, it is a completely new situation in Maharashtra today. The Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) is contesting most of the seats; and so also is the BSP.

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