The Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) will release its guarantees for the Maharashtra assembly polls during a joint rally in Mumbai on November 6, a senior Congress leader said on Wednesday.
Talking to media, Maharashtra Congress president Nana Patole said the rally will be held at the Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC) on November 6. He said the event will be attended by Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge, party leader Rahul Gandhi, NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar and Shiv Sena (UBT) president Uddhav Thackeray.
Elections to the 288-member state assembly will be held on November 20 and the counting of votes will take place three days later. The last day to file the nomination forms for the elections was on Tuesday. As per reports, 7,995 candidates filed 10,905 nominations with the Election Commission (EC).
On November 6, Rahul Gandhi will be on a one-day visit to Maharashtra. He will first participate in 'Sanvidhan Bachao' meeting in Nagpur in the morning, Patole said.
Gandhi will then attend the MVA's joint rally at the BKC, he added.
In the MVA, the Congress is contesting 103 seats followed by the Shiv Sena (UBT) 89 and NCP (SP) 87 seats. Six seats have been given to other MVA allies, while there was no clarity on three assembly segments.
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