The ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) has won 4 out of 6 Graduates' and Teachers' constituencies of the Maharashtra Legislative Council.
The Bharatiya Janata Party has suffered a major setback in the Maharashtra Legislative Council elections 2020. The Saffron party has lost five out of the six seats it contested in the crucial polls.
According to the latest reports, the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) has won 4 out of 6 Graduates' and Teachers' constituencies of the Maharashtra Legislative Council. The BJP has only managed to grab the Dhule-Nandurbar seat. While counting is underway on one seat of Amravati.
Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) candidates Arun Lad won the Pune Graduate constituency while Satish Chavan and Abhijit Wanjarri won the Aurangabad and Nagpur Graduate seats, respectively.
Lad defeated National Democratic Alliance (NDA) candidate Sangram Deshmukh by over 48,800 votes in the Pune graduate constituency. The seat was held by BJP state president Chandrakant Patil for two consecutive terms.
"Heartfelt gratitude to all the voters who participated in this electoral process. I am obliged for your wholehearted support. I promise I will do my best to ensure transparency in development," Lad thanked his supporters in a tweet on Friday.
Chavan defeated Shirish Boralkar of the Bharatiya Janata Party by a margin of 57,895 votes. On the other hand, BJP's Amrish Patel won the Dhule-Nandurbar seat. Patel was earlier with the Congress but quit and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party.
The BJP is not happy with its performance and said the Legislative Council polls has not been as expected. "We were expecting more seats but won only one. We miscalculated the combined power of the three parties (Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress)," former Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis said while speaking to the media.
Elections for the Maharashtra Legislative Council was held on 1 December 2020. Aurangabad, Pune and Nagpur- Graduate constituencies, Pune and Amravati- Teachers constituencies and Dhule-Nandurbar - local body constituency had gone to the polls.
(With agency inputs)
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