TOPICS India Maharashtra election regional elections voting politics election An average of 20 per cent polling was recorded, according to election officials, till noon in Maharashtra’s two Assembly constituencies — Tasgaon-Kavathemahankal in Sangli district in western Maharashtra, and Bandra East in suburban Mumbai. Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray with wife Rashmi and son Aaditya cast their vote at the polling booth near his Kala Nagar residence in Bandra East, where the Sena and Congress are locked in a prestige battle as the constituency houses the Thackeray family. Arch-rival Congress leader Narayan Rane, formerly with the Shiv Sena, is contesting for his political survival, and Shiv Sena has pulled all stops to ensure that Trupti Sawant, the widow of its sitting MLA Prakash Sawant, wins the battle.
However, Hyderabad-based AIMIM’s candidate Rehbar Khan ability to split the nearly 20 per cent Muslim vote in the constituency holds the key to the election. As voters queued up to cast their votes on Saturday morning, the police detained Rane’s sons Nilesh and Nitesh in separate incidents while moving around the constituency, creating a controversy. Angry at their detention, Narayan Rane accused the Sena, which is part of the ruling coalition with the BJP in the state, of misusing the official machinery.
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