In a setback to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Celebration-Balasahebanchi Shiv Sena alliance in Maharashtra, the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi-backed candidates clinched two of the 5 Legislative Council seats.
By Mustafa Shaikh: In a significant setback to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Celebration-Balasahebanchi Shiv Sena alliance in Maharashtra, the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi-backed candidates clinched two of the 5 Legislative Council seats.
The BJP managed to win the Konkan division lecturers constituency, whereas Impartial candidate Satyajit Tambe, whose insurrection rocked the state Congress forward of polls, received the Nashik graduates constituency comfortably.
The Nashik graduates constituency, represented by Satyajit Tambe’s father Sudhir Tambe for 3 phrases, was in focus because of the former’s insurrection.
Satyajit Tambe defeated his nearest rival, impartial candidate Shubhangi Patil, who was supported by the MVA, by 29,465 votes. Satyajit Tambe received 68,999 votes, whereas Shubhangi Patil bagged 39,534 votes.
Within the Nagpur lecturers’ constituency, the MVA-backed impartial candidate Sudhakar Adbale trumped BJP-supported candidate Nagorao Ganar. The lecturers’ constituency of the Nagpur division contains Bhandara, Gondia, Wardha, Nagpur, Gadchiroli and Chandrapur districts. Twenty-two candidates had been within the fray and 34,360 votes had been polled.
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Within the Konkan lecturers’ seat, BJP candidate Dnyaneshwar Mhatre defeated MVA-backed nominee Balaram Patil. The seat contains Palghar, Thane, Raigad, Ratnagiri, Sindhudurg districts.
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Maharashtra Congress chief Nana Patole has mentioned the council ballot outcomes are a verdict towards the Bharatiya Janata Celebration.
“The council poll results are a verdict against the Bharatiya Janata Party,” Patole advised India Immediately.
“For years now, the BJP has been taking citizens for a ride by telling lies. In Nagpur and Amravati, we were confident of winning as I had toured those areas. People are angry with BJP and want change. Inflated electricity bills, and other bills, are issues concerning farmers. BJP is busy complimenting themselves,” he mentioned.
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Voting for 5 Council seats – three lecturers segments (falling in Nagpur, Konkan and Aurangabad divisions) and two graduates constituencies (Nashik and Amravati divisions) was held on January 30 and counting started on Thursday morning. Academics and graduates fulfilling sure standards and enrolled as voters shaped the electoral school for these elections.
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The returning officer and Konkan divisional commissioner Mahendra Kalyankar, who introduced the outcomes after the counting of the votes in Navi Mumbai, mentioned Mhatre polled 20,683, whereas Patil bagged 10,997. Though there have been eight candidates within the fray, the principle contest was between Mhatre and Patil.
Nationalist Congress Celebration (NCP) candidate Vikram Kale received the Aurangabad lecturers constituency seat defeating BJP nominee Kiran Patil.
Within the Amravati graduates constituency seat, Congress candidate Dhiraj Lingade was main towards sitting BJP MLC Ranjit Patil, as per developments out there until late at evening.
These had been the primary MLC polls after the Eknath Shinde-led authorities took cost in June final yr. Within the final MLC polls held in June 2022, a bunch of 39 Shiv Sena MLAs led by Shinde, then a Cupboard minister, had rebelled towards the occasion management that resulted within the collapse of the Uddhav Thackeray-headed MVA authorities.
Of the 5 seats, three had been from the lecturers’ constituencies. Associations representing authorities lecturers have been demanding the implementation of the outdated pension scheme (OPS).
Beneath OPS, workers with 20 years of service get 50 per cent of their final drawn wage as their pension.
Of the Higher Home seats which went to polls, Nashik was held by Congress’ Sudhir Tambe (father of Satyajit Tambe), Nagpur by impartial candidate Nagorao Ganar, Aurangabad by Nationalist Congress Celebration’s Vikram Kale, Konkan by impartial candidate Balaram Patil and Amravati by BJP’s Ranjit Patil.
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The MVA contains the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray), the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Celebration (NCP). Nonetheless, there have been no candidates instantly fielded by both of the Shiv Sena factions.
Maharashtra Congress chief Nana Patole claimed MVA-backed nominee Adbale’s victory within the Nagpur division seat was a jolt to the saffron occasion.
Nagpur is the headquarters of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and likewise hometown of Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Union minister Nitin Gadkari.
Countering Patole’s declare, Maharashtra BJP president Chandrashekhar Bawankule mentioned the defeat of Ganar didn’t mirror the BJP’s failure as he didn’t contest on a celebration ticket.
All eyes had been on the Nashik seat the place Satyajit Tambe took the lead from the primary spherical of counting itself and remained forward until the tip.
Thought to be one of many rising leaders within the state Congress, Satyajit Tambe, who’s the nephew of senior occasion chief Balasaheb Thorat, filed his nomination as an impartial after his father Sudhir Tambe, the official candidate, opted out of the race.
His insurrection jolted the Congress a lot that the occasion dissolved its Ahmednagar district unit. The Congress additionally suspended the father-son duo.
Bawankule mentioned the BJP had prolonged help to Satyajit Tambe.
(With PTI enter)
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