In the Maharashtra assembly elections, 85% of candidates lost their deposits, totaling Rs 3.5 crore\u2014the highest in 10 years. The MVA suffered the most losses, while no BJP candidate lost a deposit. Smaller parties like VBA, BSP, and MNS also saw widespread deposit forfeitures. One independent candidate argued for retaining a portion of the deposit, despite losing.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In the Maharashtra assembly elections, 85% of candidates lost their deposits, totaling Rs 3.5 crore\u2014the highest in 10 years. The MVA suffered the most losses, while no BJP candidate lost a deposit. Smaller parties like VBA, BSP, and MNS also saw widespread deposit forfeitures. One independent candidate argued for retaining a portion of the deposit,… Read More »Maharashtra polls: 85% candidates lose Rs 3.5 cr deposits; Congress aspirants top chart<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}