Mumbai, Oct 19 (UNI) The heat and dust of the month-long election campaign for the 288-member Maharashtra assembly settled down this evening.
The second biggest state in terms of legislative seats goes to polls on Monday. The tenure of the Assembly expires on 9th November.
For the race to the Assembly in the commercial capital of the country, the contest is between the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party-Shiv Sena alliance and the opposition Indian National Congress-Nationalist Congress Party front.
The ruling saffron alliance is in a better position and riding high on the issue of nationalism even as Congress' leadership crisis was clearly visible and NCP had its own problems.
While Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her daughter and general secretary Priyanka Gandhi-Vadra gave a complete skip, her son Rahul Gandhi addressed a few meetings.
For BJP, prime minister Narendra Modi, union home minister and BJP president Amit Shah and chief minister Devendra Fadnavis led the charge, from the Sena side, it was Uddhav Thackeray and his son Aditya.
For NCP, its founder-president Sharad Pawar held the fort.
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