With Maharashtra is going into polls on Monday, the staff at the polling booths in the Mumbai are gearing up with installing EVM machines and making arrangements for voters to cast their votes. After campaigning for almost a month, candidates across political parties concluded their crusade on Saturday and now await their fate.
<img title="staff" src="https://images.mid-day.com/images/images/2019/oct/election_staff.jpg" alt="staff" />Electoral staff at Dr Anthony D'silva High School in Dadar. Pic/Ashish Raje
Election staffs from 2,398 polling booths have started collecting the EVM machines for their wards amidst tight security. The level of security would remain the same until Monday evening after citizens finish casting their votes to elect their next state government. The Mumbai suburban district is said to have the largest number of assembly constituencies in Maharashtra. The latest data revealed that there are total 73,63,249 voters in the district that pans from Bandra to Dahisar and Sion to Mulund. Out of the total sum of voters, 39,47,000 of them are men and 33,15,336 are women. The number of voters saw a 1.78 per cent rise in the state assembly elections as compared from the Lok Sabha elections held on April 2019.
<img title="staff" src="https://images.mid-day.com/images/images/2019/oct/election_evvm.jpg" alt="staff" />Pic/Ashish Raje
As far as candidates are concerned, the Maharashtra state assembly elections this year have seen 334 candidates contest across political parties to represent their wards in the state legislative council, out of which 31 of them are women. For women to come out and use their fundamental rights to vote for the promising candidate, the election commission has introduced Sakhi polling booths that have women electoral officers and staffs along with creches for children in every constituency in Mumbai.
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The state assembly polls in Maharashtra will take place on October 21 and counting will be on October 24.
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