Uddhav Thackeray and Devendra Fadnavis, in Navi Mumbai, on Sept. 25, 2019. (Photograph: PTI)
6 years ago
Oct 21, 2019
As polling in Maharashtra and Haryana draws to a close, the countdown to who will come out victorious in the first set of state elections after the 2019 Lok Sabha polls has begun.
Here too, opinion polls have suggested BJP sweeping the state and Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar returning to power. The Congress suffered a jolt ahead of the election after its state unit President Ashok Tanwar quit and declared his support for fledgling Dushyant Chautala’s Jannayak Janta Party—a breakaway faction of the INLD.