Over 9 lakh new voters registered in Maharashtra
The Election Commission of India has registered 9.67 lakh new voters in Maharashtra in a special drive conducted between October 3 and December 15, 2017. This brought around 70% of the state's population on the electoral rolls. The newly registered voters included 4.81 lakh men, 4.85 lakh women, and 159 people from the third gender category.