New Delhi:
The Mahayuti is en route to a record win in the Maharashtra Assembly election, in which no alliance has ever crossed the magic 200-seat mark.
The ruling alliance – led by the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Shiv Sena and Nationalist Congress Party factions led by Eknath Shinde and Ajit Pawar – had won 107 seats and was ahead in 123 others of the state’s 288 seats at 5.45 pm. The Maha Vikas Aghadi – fronted by the Congress and the Sena and NCP groups led by Uddhav Thackeray and Sharad Pawar – had won 22 and was ahead in 24.
Within the Mahayuti, the BJP leads; the saffron party has won 55 and is leading in 78 so far, while the Shinde Sena has won 28 and is ahead in as many. Ajit Pawar’s NCP has won 25 and is leading in 15..