Poll campaigning concludes in Maharashtra, Haryana, Arunachal Pradesh
New Delhi: Campaigning for Tuesday’s State Assembly elections in Maharashtra , Haryana and Arunachal Pradesh concluded on Sunday evening. During the month-long process, the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, addressed an election rally at Pasighat
in Arunachal Pradesh, Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi had addressed rallies
at Karnal and Sirsa in Haryana, while Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi
had addressed a rally in Bhopal. In Maharashtra, Sonia Gandhi addressed rallies
in Kolhapur , Nagpur and Mumbai. Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders L.
K. Advani, Rajnath Singh, Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley also campaigned in these
states. It is notable that all the three States are ruled by Congress, which shares
power in Maharashtra with Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) as a coalition partner.
Maharashtra has a 288-member State Assembly, Haryana; a 90-member Assembly and
Arunachal Pradesh has 60 members. There are 82,028 ( Maharashtra ), 12,894 (Haryana),
and 2,061 (Arunachal Pradesh) polling centres in the three states. Counting will
take place on October 22. The election process will be completed on October 25.
