Will PM's tour change BJP's fate in Western Maha?
The Free Press Journal|November 11, 2024
As the BJP prepares to welcome Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his campaign tour in Western Maharashtra this week, a big question arises: Will his rallies and roadshows energise the BJP cadre and motivate them to make a concerted push in a region that yielded underwhelming results for the BJP-led Mahayuti alliance in the recent Lok Sabha polls?
Rohit Chandavarkar

Western Maharashtra, which has 70 of the 288 assembly seats, has traditionally been a stronghold of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) but has seen the BJP-led alliance make inroads over the past two decades.

In the recent Lok Sabha polls, the MVA won six out of 10 seats in Western Maharashtra, with Sharad Pawar and the Congress party dominating the sugar belt. This politically active region is an industrial hub of Pune, the sugarcane belt of Kolhapur, Sangli, Ahmednagar, and the drought-prone textile hub of Solapur.

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