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Parties differ on machine that hides voting pattern: Election Commission
The move of the govt to set up a team of ministers comes against backdrop of the SC asking Centre to decide on the issue by month end
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Parties raise the pitch ahead of civic polls
Political parties are taking an increasingly aggressive stance ahead of the upcoming civic elections in both Delhi and Maharashtra (due 2017).The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) election is due in 2017. Maharashtra's ruling coalition partners Shiv Sena and Bharatiya Janata Party are preparing to go solo. Both are ruling India's richest civic body, which recently passed a budget of Rs 37,052 crore for 2016-17.''BJP has overtaken Shiv Sena in the Assembly election held in 2014 both in Mumbai and the rest of Maharashtra after the alliance broke. The party has since taken a number of decisions for expediting growth in Greater Mumbai and it does not want to be cornered by the opposition on issues relating to corruption. Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis wants to cash in on the party's development agenda,'' a BJP legislator said.Shiv Sena is perfectly happy to go it alone as well.''Shiv Sena has not forgotten the way BJP ditched the alliance at the last minute for the Assembly poll.
