Maharashtra Election Results 2024: E Shinde, Ajit Pawar In Focus As Breakaway Leaders Upstage Mentors In Maharashtra
NDTV
The BJP-led Mahayuti alliance, which includes the Shinde Sena and Ajit Pawar's NCP, is en route to a thumping win in the 2024 Maharashtra Assembly election, thanks to its two smaller allies.
Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena, and the Nationalist Congress Party offshoot led by Ajit Pawar, have apparently flipped a chunk of seats - over 70 - from their parent parties to the Bharatiya Janata Party-led ruling Mahayuti alliance in the Maharashtra Assembly election.
The flip underlines the impact of the Sena and NCP split - the former in 2022 and the latter a year later - on the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi's fortunes. Sans those 70-odd seats, it cannot hope to counter a BJP that has dominated today, and is set for its best ever score in a Maharashtra election.
At 12.30 pm the BJP was leading in 124 of the Maharashtra Assembly's 288 seats.
