Counting across all the centres in Maharashtra and Jharkhand will begin at 8 am, an Election Commission official said. The counting of postal ballots will begin first, he added.
Congress on Friday appointed three observers, including former Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel for Maharashtra, and senior party leader Tariq Anwar and two others for Jharkhand to oversee the post-election scenario in both the states.
As Maharashtra votes to elect a new government, the BJP has escalated its allegations against NCP-SCP leader Supriya Sule, accusing her of channeling proceeds from the alleged bitcoin scam into the assembly elections.
The voter turnout in Maharashtra's 288 Assembly constituencies till 9 a.m. was reported at 6.61 per cent, said officials here on Wednesday after the polling started at 7 a.m.
Voting began at 7 am on Wednesday for the single-phase Maharashtra assembly elections and will conclude at 6 pm. Polling is taking place across 288 assembly constituencies.
In fact, it has issued notification for polls to some lower level civic bodies in August first week too.
He said the change of power in the state could have happened with grace and in a dignified manner in 2019 and not with "betrayal".
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Tuesday said that his government belongs to common people where nobody will be insulted and every community will be respected.
The Indian Met Department (IMD) on Tuesday issued a heavy rainfall alert for Maharashtra over the next four days. The Kundalika river in Raigad district, located near Mumbai, has crossed the danger mark, as per an official statement.
The party also took a jibe at Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis asking who was the person who stopped him from taking oath as a Chief Minister.
