Mumbai, Jan 16 (IANS) Counting of votes for elections to Maharashtra’s 29 municipal corporations, including the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), began on Friday amid tight security arrangements.The State Election Commission will announce the results of the high-stakes civic body elections.The Maharashtra municipal election results are being declared a day after polling was held for 2,869 seats across 893 wards.Heavy police deployment has been made in and around the counting centres as w…
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Mumbai, Jan 10 (IANS) Shiv Sena-UBT MP Sanjay Raut said on Saturday that the election of 70 NDA candidates unopposed in the Maharashtra civic elections is “completely fraudulent”. He drew a comparison to the experiences of prominent national leaders, asserting that even influential political leaders like Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Union Home Minister Amit Shah have never been elected without opposition. Raut questioned how individuals could be elected unopposed in “wholesale” (large nu…