The people of Maharashtra and Haryana are voting on Monday to choose new state governments, and the incumbent Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is looking to come back to power. The chief ministers of both states—Devendra Fadnavis and Manohar Lal Khattar, respectively—have led relentless, feverish campaigns without much threat from a relatively quiet opposition. In the recently concluded general election, the BJP won all the Lok Sabha seats in Haryana and the BJP-Shiv Sena combine won more than 85% seats in Maharashtra. [Read an explainer on the Maharashtra elections here]In between all this, Chief minister Fadnavis, who has kept allies on tenterhooks and the opposition in disarray, looks like he is set to come back comfortably. [Read a profile of Devendra Fadnavis here]One assembly seat that is being eagerly watched in Worli, from where Aaditya Thackeray, son of Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray, will make his poll debut.

Source: Huffington Post October 21, 2019 02:37 UTC