Maharashtra: General Election: 2014

Maharashtra is going to Elect 48 Member of Parliaments over three days in April; the election commission announced this on Wednesday in New Delhi.

Polls for 11 seats in Mumbai and Thane districts will be held on April 24.

Maval is another constituency under which some of the areas in Mumbai metropolitan region fall will also go to polls on April 24. Vidarbha region has 10 Lok Sabha seats will be in the first phase of poll in the state which will be held on April 10. Remaining 38 constituencies in the state falling in Marathwada, Western Maharashtra, Northern Maharashtra and Konkan will go to poll on April 17 and 24.

State election commission has already asked the voters to confirm their registry and cards and update them or apply for them immediate so as to get them enlisted before the last date for filing of nomination for the candidates probably it could be 9 March. This means voters have less than a month's time to ensure that they can vote on the day of election. There are about 40 lakh new voters this year in Maharashtra

Awareness of Politics

According to some senior journalists, the higher growth of political awareness could be a result of the political and social setting across the nation. “A segment of society is unhappy, or rather angry with the people in the government. A contributing factor to the enlargement of voters’ list is also the agitation launched by social crusader Anna Hazare, awareness among people to vote and, of course, a negative and violent expression of anger through social media,”.

According to political analyst and Professor Surendra Jondhale of Mumbai University, Thane, “The high growth is due to the sustained campaign by the Election Commission to register voters, growing awareness among people to participate in the democratic process, and the new environment created due to the efforts taken by NGOs.”

So expecting a huge amount of Voting to elect the 16^th’ Lok Sabha this time.