Shiv Sena chief Eknath Shinde with BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis, Maharashtra party President Chandrashekhar Bawankule, NCP chief Ajit Pawar and party leader Praful Patel during a press conference
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Mumbai: Hours after the Supreme Court asked Maharashtra’s State Election Commission to notify elections to local bodies and complete it within four months, the BJP-led Maha Yuti-NDA announced its decision to go unitedly in the crucial elections which includes big corporations like Mumbai.
Maharashtra experiences South-West Monsoon between June-September - and conducting elections would be an enormous task, sources in the state administrative and police machinery said.
“We will contest the elections as MahaYuti…there could be some changes here and there…as a policy decision, we would go to polls together,” Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis told reporters in Chondi in Ahilyanagar district.
“We are very happy with the decision,” he said, adding he would request the SEC to start making arrangements for the polls.
When Fadnavis made the announcement, he was accompanied by Deputy CMs Eknath Shinde, the chief leader of Shiv Sena and Ajit Pawar, the NCP President.
The Maha Vikas Aghadi and other opposition parties too welcomed the order of the Supreme Court.