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Maharashtra and Haryana went to polls on Wednesday to elect their assemblies in high-stakes elections seen as the first major test of Prime Minister Narendra Modi after the Lok Sabha polls as he pitched for BJP coming to power on its own in both the states.Anna HazareAnti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare shows his ink-marked finger after voting at a polling centre in Maharashtra.Maharashtra went to polls on 288 assembly seats.This will also be the first elections in Maharashtra after established political formations -- Shiv Sena-BJP and Cong-NCP -- crumbled and the parties will be contesting alone after 15 years. Congress and NCP had ruled the state for 15 continuous years from 1999.