Commissioner and District Election Officer Bhushan Gagrani revealed that Mumbai now has 1,02,29,708 registered voters, which is a rise by 2.91 lakh in the span of six months.

Rahul Gandhi stated that the Maharashtra elections are a battle of ideologies between billionaires and the poor, promising to remove the 50% cap on reservations and conduct a caste-based survey. He criticized the shift of major projects to Gujarat,

Lok Sabha LoP and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on 18 launched indirect attack on BJP and called Maharashtra election as an election of ideologies and an election between 1-2 billionaires and the poor. Rahul Gandhi said "The Maharashtra election is an election of ideologies and an election between 1-2 billionaires and the poor.