Former Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, actor Akshay Kumar and Rajkummar Rao are among the early voters in the Maharashtra Assembly Elections 2024. The Bollywood celebrities stepped out of their homes early in the day to exercise their fundamental right to vote. Sachin Tendulkar along with his wife Anjali and daughter Sara cast their vote at a polling booth in Mumbai. The trio showed their inked fingers to the media.
Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh cited Union minister Nitin Gadkari's remarks that the Maharashtra government's "Ladki Bahin" scheme could affect the timely payment of subsidies in other sectors to hit out at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
The BJP won 14 of 25 Lok Sabha seats in the North East in 2019, emerging as the single largest party in the wider region