Maharashtra Polls: What's At Stake?
Polling on 288 seats across Maharashtra will begin at 7am on Wednesday. The Maharashtra polls will decide whether the momentum that the opposition managed post the Lok Sabha results will remain or will the NDA dominate the narrative. In recent years, alliances in Maharashtra have seen unexpected shifts, the split within two major regional parties and the formation of new alliances with national parties. The Shiv Sena has been split in two, so has the Nationalist Congress party. The poll outcome will determine the strength and future of regional parties in a state that has traditionally seen strong regional identities play a role in politics.
