Prakash Ambedkar's Vanchit Bahujan Aghi (VBA) is all set to field 20-25 Muslim candidates on its own for assembly polls, as an alliance with All India Majlis-e-Ittehul Muslimeen (MIM) has t yet been confirmed. challenge from third front in Maharashtra appears to be diminishing. VBA chief Prakash Ambedkar says his party will contest all 288 seats on its own and chances of an alliance with MIM were almost nil.

Good news for Congress

decision may seem like a piece of good news for Congress. party is aware of impact that a potential VBA-MIM front can have on its Dalit-Muslim vote base. In Lok Sabha polls, combine h split votes in several seats where margin of defeat for Congress was lower than votes polled by VBA or MIM candidate. 

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Maharashtra which has 288 Assembly seats will go to polls in 21 October 2019, Election Commission anunced on Saturday on. Maharashtra assembly elections will be held in a single-phase and counting procedure would be conducted on October 24. Election Commission chief Sunil Arora also anunced that last date of mination is on October 4. Arora also stated that parties in Maharashtra h wanted polls to be concluded by Dhanteras.

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Model Code of Conduct

model code of conduct has into effect as soon as anuncement was me. Sunil Arora along with state officials of Election Commission of India and state police officers met with political parties vying for elections.

Maharashtra election alliance

Currently, BJP holds 122 seats while Shiv Sena holds 63 seats. Amid growing speculation that BJP might t agree to 50:50 seat-sharing formula being proposed by it for assembly elections, Shiv Sena has been conducting interviews of ticket aspirants for all 288 assembly seats, and it reviewed its poll preparedness on Sunday at a party meeting.

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Shiv Sena and BJP will contest Maharashtra Assembly elections jointly, and an anuncement on seat-sharing formula will be me in next two days, Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray said on Friday. In 2014 elections, Shiv Sena and BJP h contested assembly elections separately, as seat-sharing talks between two parties collapsed at last moment. two parties came toger after elections to form government with BJP winning 122 seats and Shiv Sena with 63.

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