Heavy rains in Mumbai since the past few days have affected voter turn out as polling in Maharashtra assembly elections 2019 is underway. Also Read: Maharashtra polls 2019 Live: 13.95% voter turnout till 11 am; CM Fadnavis, Uddhav Thackeray, son Aaditya cast voteAssembly elections in Maharashtra and Haryana are taking simultaneously. The Election Commission has deployed 6.5 lakh polling staff for the election that are taking place across 96,661 polling booths. In 2014 elections which the BJP and Shiv Sena contested separately, the two parties won 122 and 63 seats, respectively. However, BJP later formed an alliance with Shiv Sena and both parties ran the successful government for five years.

Source: dna October 21, 2019 06:45 UTC