The campaigning for the Assembly polls in Haryana and Maharashtra ended on Saturday evening with speculation mostly over whether the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will win a two-thirds or a three-fourths majority in Haryana, and if the late surge in favour of Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) will prevent an embarrassing rout of the Opposition in Maharashtra.
The polling is on Monday and the counting of votes on October 24. Over the past month, the BJP succeeded in keeping the political narrative focused on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership and scrapping of provisions of Article 370 rather than the

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