Maharashtra: CM Devendra Fadnavis projected to win from Nagpur SW

As per Republic-Jan Ki Baat's Opinion poll based on on-ground surveys ahead of the elections, the Nagpur South West seat will witness Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis beating Suresh Mane to win the seat.  

Fadnavis contested the 2014 Assembly polls as a senior leader of the party from the state and won by a margin of more than 30,000 votes. Fadnavis is the son of the former Jan Sangh leader Gangadhar Fadnavis and was appointed the corporator in the Nagpur civic body at the age of just 22. He then went on to be appointed as Mayor of the city at the age of 27, becoming the youngest Mayor. He then contested the 1999 Assembly polls and won. He then went on to win three consecutive elections.

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Maharashtra and Haryana will be going to polls on Monday, October 21, with the counting of the polls set to take place on Thursday, October 24.  

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The campaigning for both the states has been going on for a few weeks, with the heavyweights of all parties seeing themselves campaigning for the candidates. PM Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah have been addressing as many as three rallies per day. The BJP has aligned with the Shiv Sena for the polls after a lot of back and forth over multiple issues such as CM designate and other important portfolios. In the 2014 elections, the two parties did not align before the elections, but it did not have any impact on BJP who the highest number of seats, aligning with the Shiv Sena later.  

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