Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, in Mumbai, on Sept. 7, 2019. (Photograph: PTI)
Around nine crore voters in Maharashtra will be exercising their franchise on Oct. 21 and the results will be declared on Oct. 24. After publicly voicing differences for months, the Bharatiya Janata Party and Shiv Sena kept their National Democratic Alliance intact, as did the United Progressive Alliance duo—Congress and Nationalist Congress Party.