Eknath Shinde Thanks ‘Ladli Bahin, Ladle Kisan’ For Maharashtra Mandate

As Mahayuti is set to record Maharashtra’s biggest landslide win in history, Chief Minister Eknath Shinde thanks the voters for the thumping majority lead. The Mahayuti is en route to a record win in the Maharashtra Assembly election, in which no alliance has ever crossed the magic 200-seat mark. The ruling alliance - led by the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Shiv Sena and Nationalist Congress Party factions led by Eknath Shinde and Ajit Pawar - was ahead in 223 of the state's 288 seats at noon, and The Maha Vikas Aghadi - fronted the Congress and the Sena and NCP groups led by Uddhav Thackeray and Sharad Pawar - is ahead in just 55. Non-aligned parties are leading in 10. Within the Mahayuti, it is the BJP that is ahead; the saffron party is leading in 126 of the 149 seats it is contesting. The Shinde Sena is ahead in 56 of the 81 it is contesting and Ajit Pawar's NCP 38 of 59. Across the aisle in the MVA, the Congress is leading in 19 of the 101 seats it has entered, while Sharad Pawar's NCP is ahead in 17 of 86 and the Thackeray Sena in 15 of 95.