Beed: An independent candidate from Maharashtra's Beed Assembly constituency died after suffering a massive cardiac attack while monitoring the polling process at a booth on Wednesday.
This incident occurred at the polling booth in Chhatrapati Shahu Vidyalaya in Beed. He was rushed to the hospital, where doctors declared him brought dead,
Since morning, Balasaheb Shinde had been touring the polling booths of Beed and stopped by a booth in Chhatrapati Shahu Vidyalaya to review the process. He was standing in front of the polling booth as voters waited in long queues for their chance to exercise their franchise. Suddenly Shinde complained of uneasiness and fell unconscious on the ground.
Shinde died due to cardiac arrest and his body has been sent for postmortem, official sources said.
Seeing him dropping on the ground, people rushed him to the nearby Kaku Nana Hospital, from where he was later shifted to Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar hospital. However, attending doctors at the hospital declared him brought dead.
Shinde was contesting as an independent candidate from the Beed Assembly constituency, which is witnessing a fight between Sandeep Kshirsagar from NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar) and Yogesh Kshirsagar from NCP led by Ajit Pawar.
This time, the battle in Maharashtra is between Mahayuti, comprising BJP, Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena and Ajit Pawar led NCP, and Maha Vihas Aghadi, which includes Congress, Shiv Sena (UBT) and NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar).
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