Maharashtra Assembly Election 2019, Anushakti Nagar profile: NCP spokesperson Nawab Malik seeks to wrest back seat from Shiv Sena's Tukaram Kate

Anushakti Nagar Assembly Election 2019 | The Election Commission of India (ECI) announced the dates for the Maharashtra and Haryana Assembly polls. Voting for the 288-member Maharashtra Assembly  will be held on 21 October  in a single phase. The counting of votes and final results will be declared on 24 October. The term of the Devendra Fadnavis-led current Maharashtra Assembly will end on 9 November. The notification and nomination process for the Assembly election was issued on 27 September. Candidates filed their nominations latest by 4 October. The scrutiny of nomination papers was done on 5 October and the last date to withdraw candidature from the electoral battle was 7 October. A total of 95,473 polling stations will be set up for over 8.95 crore voters in Maharashtra. There is  one reserved seat  under Scheduled Caste category in the Mumbai Suburban district — Kurla. Click here for detailed coverage of Assembly Elections 2019   [caption id=“attachment_7366721” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Representational image. PTI[/caption] Constituency Name— Anushakti Nagar **Constituency Number—**172 **District Name—**Mumbai Suburban Total Electors— 250021 **Female Electors—**114412 Male Electors— 135607 **Third Gender—**2 Reserved— None **Results in previous elections—**In 2009 elections, Nawab Malik of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) won this seat with 38,928 votes against Shiv Sena candidate Kate Tukaram Ramkrishna who netted 32,103 votes. In 2014, the former runner-up Tukaram Ramkrishna Kate emerged as the present MLA by defeating NCP’s Nawab Malik. In 2019 elections, NCP is once again fielding Nawab Malik against the incumbent MLA and Shiv Sena candidate Tukaram Ramkrishna Kate.