Maharashtra to vote on Nov 20; Jharkhand on Nov 13, 20; results on Nov 23
New Delhi: The Election Commission of India (ECI) announced the voting schedule for Maharashtra and Jharkhand this afternoon. Maharashtra will go to the polls on November 20, with the counting of votes scheduled for November 23. Jharkhand will vote in two phases, on November 13 and 20, with vote counting for both states also taking place on November 23.
Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar noted that with these elections, the ECI is setting "gold standards," citing the "free and fair elections" conducted in Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir as examples. Over 12 crore voters are eligible to cast their ballots across the two states.
In Maharashtra, the 2019 elections saw the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), a coalition of the then-unified Shiv Sena, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), and Congress secure 154 out of 288 seats. However, this time around, both the Shiv Sena and NCP have splintered into factions.
Meanwhile, in Jharkhand, Chief Minister Hemant Soren’s Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) is preparing to face the BJP. In the 2019 elections, JMM won 30 seats and formed a government with the Congress, which secured 16 seats.
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Kolkata: Aliah University student found dead in hostel
Kolkata (PTI): A student of the state-run Aliah University in New Town near Kolkata was found dead in his hostel room, police said on Tuesday.
The body of Abdul Rahman (24), a resident of Malda, was found hanging from the ceiling in his hostel room around 7 pm on Monday, they said.
Rahman's classmates found the body when they entered his room after getting no response to repeated knocks on the doors. They then informed the police.
Officers of the Techno City police station went to the spot and sent the body to hospital for post-mortem examination, an official said.
An investigation has been started, they said, adding that the exact cause of the death will be known after the post-morterm examination.
