Seven states to go for Assembly polls this year
Four out of the seven states will go to polls simultaneously with the Lok Sabha elections
Seven states are set to hold Assembly polls in 2024, with four states — Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Odisha and Sikkim — simultaneously holding elections with the Lok Sabha polls.
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The Assemblies in Haryana, Maharashtra and Jharkhand will go to polls towards the end of the year.
In Andhra Pradesh, neither the INDIA bloc nor the NDA alliance have any seats in the current Assembly, which is dominated by the ruling YSRCP and the Telugu Desam Party.
In Odisha too, the NDA and INDIA bloc are minor players with the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in power. In Sikkim, the INDIA bloc has no presence with NDA members holding 31 of the 32 Assembly seats.
In the 60-member Arunachal Assembly, the INDIA bloc has just four MLAs compared to the NDA’s 49.
Haryana, Maharashtra and Jharkhand will likely see direct contests between the NDA and the INDIA alliance. In Haryana’s 90-member Assembly, the ruling NDA has 52 MLAs and the Congress has 32. In Maharashtra, the ruling NDA has 189 of 288 MLAs, while the INDIA bloc has 81.
Jharkhand is the only state where the INDIA bloc has an advantage with 48 MLAs compared to the NDA’s 29 in the 81-member House.
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