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The BJP-led alliance, Mahayuti, is cruising its way to a massive victory in the Maharashtra Assembly Elections 2024. As per the Election Commission trends, the BJP is leading on 129 of 148 seats it contested in the 2024 state polls. The party has already won eight seats as of 2:30 pm on Saturday.
If actual results are the same as the current trend, this would be the first time since 1990 that a party would win more than 100 seats. Overall, the Mahayuti is likely to win more than 200 seats in the 288-member Maharashtra Assembly. The MVA is leading on just over 55 seat.
A political party or an alliance must win 145 seats of the 288 in the Maharashtra Assembly. The Mahayuti comprises the BJP, Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena, Ajit Pawar's NCP, JSS, RSVA, and RYSP. The MVA has the Congress, Uddhav Thackeray's Shiv Sena (UBT), and Sharad Pawar's NCP-SP and PWPI as constituents.
The backroom boys Amid Mahayuti's anticipated landslide win, the names of two Union ministers are doing the rounds. They are believed to be the "architects" of the BJP's massive victory in the Maharashtra polls. Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis also thanked them while addressing his press conference on Saturday.
The two leaders were Bhupender Yadav and Ashwini Vaishnaw. They were in charge and co-incharge, respectively, of the Maharashtra election for the BJP. They were appointed as the in-charge soon after the BJP-led NDA's victory in the Lok Sabha Elections 2024.
Bhupender Yadav and Ashwini Vaishnaw have worked extensively behind the scenes, away from the limelight. According to reports, when Union Home Minister Amit Shah released the BJP manifesto in Mumbai on November 10, the two senior leaders sat in the audience. The challenge In the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections held in June this year, the BJP faced a major setback by winning just nine of the 38 Lok Sabha seats in Maharashtra, while its rival, the Congress, emerged as single-largest party with 13 seats.
This upset the Mahayuti, which is already in power in the state, and also posed a big challenge for the alliance in the Maharashtra Assembly Elections held in November. Bhupender Yadav and Ashwini Vaishnaw seem to have successfully overcome this challenge. The two union ministers have also been credited for leading the BJP to victory in Madhya Pradesh last year.
Who are Bhupender Yadav and Ashwini Vaishnaw Bhupendra Yadav is considered a close aide of Union Home Minister Amit Shah. Yadav, who is a BJP leader from Rajasthan, has a good hold in several other states, including Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, and Bihar. Yadav was BJP’s election co-in-charge for the Assembly polls of Rajasthan (2013) and Jharkhand (2014) and in-charge for Gujarat.
He was the in-charge for the 2019 Lok Sabha election and 2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly elections. This is the first time that he took charge of a western state like Maharashtra and led the party to victory. Yadav is currently the Union Cabinet Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change.
He is a Member of Parliament from the Lok Sabha constituency of Alwar, and was Rajya Sabha MP from 2012. Meanwhile, Ashwini Vaishnaw is currently the Minister for Railways, Information & Broadcasting, Electronics and Information Technology. He served the people of Sundergarh, Balasore, Cuttack and Goa.
He earned Master’s in Technology from IIT Kanpur and MBA from Wharton. Vaishnaw brings a combination of skills in technology, finance and its application to weakest sections of society. He firmly believes in the philosophy of ‘Antyodaya’, i.
e. transforming the lives of the marginalized sections of society, its profile on Government of India's website reads. The setback The BJP celebrated its win in Maharashtra.
At the same time, the party is likely to suffer a setback in the Jharkhand Assembly Elections 2024. This may come as a shock Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Assam CM Himanta Hiswa Sarma, who were in charge of the elections there..
