All India Congress Committee (AICC) on Thursday evening anunced regional leaders as Election in-charges for upcoming Maharashtra elections. committee has divided state into five regions and has appointed leaders for each region.

Five regional Election in-charge

AICC release stated that Mukul Wasnik will lead in Vidharbha, Avinash Pandey will lead in Mumbai, Rajini Patil will lead in Western and Konkan regions, R.C. Khuntia will lead in rrn Maharashtra and Rajeev Satav will lead in Marathwada region. Avinash Pandey will also be in charge of 'Election Control Room'. statement also said that se regional heads will have Secretaries attached with m. statement was signed by AICC General Secretary K C Venugopal. 

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Maharashtra Assembly polls are likely to be conducted in October with Chief Election Commissioner, Sunil Arora on Thursday stating that  anuncement will be made at an appropriate time in New Delhi. CEC also stated that  commission will consider Diwali holidays before finalizing dates. Election Commission also plans to hold a drive to increase turut and to raise awareness among first-time voters in state. term for Maharashtra Assembly ends on vember 9. Maharashtra is likely to go to polls with Haryana, since latter's assembly term ends on vember 2. CEC also mentioned that dates for Jharkhand polls will be anunced later since Assembly still has three months left.

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Re-kindled alliance

Indian National Congress (INC) will rekindle ir alliance with  Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) to fight Maharashtra polls. two parties had early this week decided that y will contest 125 seats each, and will give 38 seats to smaller allies from across state. two parties had contested 2014 elections separately and INC won 42 seats whereas NCP won 41 seats. two had previously been allies for 15 years. 

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Congress will be hoping to make a strong return to state y have been dominating in past. Maharashtra had been lead by a Congress CM from 1999 to 2014. This dominance came to an end when BJP swept polls in 2014 by winning 122 seats and named Devendra Fadnavis as CM. 

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