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Updated: Nov 09, 2024 09:53 IST
New Delhi [India], November 9 (Desk): Rajya Sabha MP and AAP leader Sanjay Singh is scheduled to campaign for Maha Vikas Aghadi candidate Jitendra Awhad in Mumbai on Saturday.
Taking to his official handle on X, Sanjay Singh said, “On November 9, I will be campaigning for Maha Vikas Aghadi candidate Jitendra Awhad in Mumbai. I will also address a meeting and press conference with AAP workers.”
NCP(SP) leader and former Maharashtra minister Jitendra Awhad is contesting from Mumbra-Kalwa in the November 20 Assembly polls.
Awhad, an OBC leader, has been winning from this Muslim-dominated seat for consecutive three terms since 2009. This time, he is facing a stiff challenge from the Ajit Pawar-led NCP’s candidate Najeeb Mulla.
Earlier on Wednesday, the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) announced five guarantees ahead of Maharashtra assembly polls at a joint rally here including Mahalakshmi Yojana for women under which Rs 3,000 will be given per month to one woman in every family and free bus travel for women.
The rally was attended by the Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, Nationalist Congress Party (SP) supremo Sharad Pawar, Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Udhav Thackeray, Congress chief in Maharashtra Nana Patole, party leader Ramesh Chennithala and some other leaders of the alliance.
Rahul Gandhi announced the Mahalakshmi Yojana for women. Under this scheme, Rs 3,000 will be given per month to one woman in every family. Besides, every woman will be entitled to free bus travel under the scheme.
The MVA promised to waive off all farmers’ agriculture loans up to Rs 3 lakhs. Besides, the alliance government will provide a Rs 50,000 incentive for regular loan repayments.
The alliance also announced plans to carry out a caste census and promised that it would work towards removing the 50 per cent bar on reservations.
The MVA government will also provide health insurance of Rs 25 lakh to all families and essential medicines will be provided free from hospitals.
The fifth guarantee includes Rs 4,000 monthly assistance to the unemployed youth in the state.
The Maharashtra assembly elections are scheduled for November 20, with votes for all 288 constituencies to be counted on November 23.
The opposition MVA coalition, comprising Congress, Shiv Sena (UBT), and the Nationalist Congress Party (SCP), seeks to reclaim power in the state, challenging the Mahayuti alliance, which includes Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and Ajit Pawar-led NCP.
In the 2019 Maharashtra assembly elections, the BJP won 105 seats, Shiv Sena secured 56, and Congress 44. In 2014, the BJP won 122 seats, Shiv Sena 63, and Congress 42. (Desk)
