Polling for the 90-member Haryana Assembly and the 288-member Maharashtra Assembly elections is all set to take place on Monday, 21 October. The results of the elections will be out on 24 October.
As many as 1,169 candidates will battle it out for the 90 seats on offer in Haryana, with the primary contest being between the BJP and the Congress. The other players include the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) and Dushyant Chautala's Jannayak Janata Party (JJP).
In Maharashtra, the BJP-Shiv Sena combine is up against the Congress-NCP alliance, with Parkash Ambedkar’s Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA) also likely to play a role.