Chunav Manch: The panel which came face to face were NCP MLA Idris Naikwadi, Wasim Khan, president of Bhartiya Janata Party -Mumbai Minority Morcha Member Of CWC vs AIMIM's Waris Pathan and discussed the permutations, and combinations of the upcoming Maharashtra Assembly elections and hits and misses of the ruling Mahayuti government. Elections to the 288-member Maharashtra assembly will be held on November 20.
The panel also discussed vote bank politics and Muslim appeasement. While the MVA is planning to field Muslim candidates, AIMIM may field on 27 seats.
Notably, the Maharashtra assembly comprises 288 members who are directly elected from single-seat constituencies, and this year, the assembly polls are expected to be a two-way fight between the ruling Mahayuti Alliance of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), Shiv Sena-Eknath Shinde and NCP-Ajit Pawar, and the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) coalition of the Shiv Sena (UBT), NCP-Sharad Pawar, and the Congress.
