In a setback to the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance in Maharashtra, the BJP won four of the six state legislative council seats, including Nagpur, and snatched the Akola-Buldhana-Washim seat from the Shiv Sena. Reacting to BJP’s victory, Leader of Opposition in Maharashtra Assembly Devendra Fadnavis said that BJP has busted the myth of MVA that all three parties (Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress) can win every election in the state by fighting together. .
The Election Commission had on December 10 announced voting for six seats for the Maharashtra Legislative Council from five local constituencies. In the elections to two seats of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), Shiv Sena (Sunil Shinde) and BJP (Rajhans Singh) won one seat each unopposed. In the Kolhapur and Nandurbar-Dhule MLC elections also, the Congress and the BJP won one seat each, respectively, unopposed. Voting was held on December 10 in Nagpur and Akola-Buldhana-Washim seats.
According to the District Information Office, out of 554 votes polled in Nagpur, BJP candidate and former state power minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule got 362 votes, while Mangesh Deshmukh, an independent candidate supported by the MVA, got 186 votes. On the eve of voting, Congress candidate Ravindra Bhoyer had expressed his inability to contest, after which the party supported Deshmukh. However, later Bhoyar contested and got only one vote.
In Akola-Washim-Buldhana, three-time Shiv Sena MLC Gopikishan Bajoria lost to BJP’s Vasant Khandelwal. Of the total 808 votes, Khandelwal got 443 votes while Bajoria got 334 votes. The MVA was claiming that they would win all the elections as the three parties came together. Fadnavis said that we have busted this myth and I think this victory has laid the foundation for our future victory. Khandelwal attributed his victory to the successful strategy of his party. Talking to reporters, Bawankule said that the MVA had 240 votes. However, the MVA-backed candidate got only 186 votes. Bawankule attacked Maharashtra Congress President Nana Patole and accused him of behaving in an autocratic manner and demanded his resignation. He said that Congress should introspect why their votes were divided. “For two days they indulged in horse-trading, yet they could not keep their party together. This is the defeat of Congress leaders in the true sense. Congress leaders were behaving in an autocratic manner. Nana Patole to work Not suitable (state) party chief and he should resign.”
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