BJP, NCP (SP) Win Two Seats Each in Maharashtra MLC Polls
Kaustubh Gawade won the teachers’ seat after the BJP improved its western Maharashtra showing, while Harshada Deshmukh held the graduates’ seat for NCP(SP).
- On Wednesday, the Bharatiya Janata Party and Nationalist Congress Party shared the two Pune Division seats in the Maharashtra Legislative Council elections. BJP nominee Kaustubh Gawade won the Teachers' constituency, while NCP candidate Harshada Deshmukh-Jadhav retained the Graduates' seat.
- The elections for five Maharashtra Legislative Council seats, held on October 23, were necessitated because the terms of sitting members expire on December 6. A total of 1.06 million graduate and teacher voters were eligible to vote across 2,419 polling stations in these constituencies.
- In the Teachers' contest, Gawade secured 23,117 votes to defeat independent candidate Sachin Sanap. Deshmukh-Jadhav won the Graduates' constituency with 1,13,840 votes, defeating BJP candidate Smita Jadhav by a margin of 9,928 votes.
- While Mahayuti allies BJP and Shiv Sena secured one seat each, the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi claimed victory in three constituencies, including Nagpur. This split verdict reflects a mixed outcome across the five contested seats.
- Senior NCP leader Jayant Patil attributed the outcome to graduates' concerns over unemployment and inflation. He claimed that "whenever elections are held through ballot papers, the opposition wins," highlighting the significance of ballot-based voting systems.
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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) on Wednesday shared the two Pune Division seats in the Maharashtra Legislative Council elections, with BJP candidate Kaustubh Gawade winning the Teachers’ constituency and NCP (SP) candidate Harshada Deshmukh-Jadhav retaining the Graduates’ constituency for the opposition alliance.
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Pune, Oct 28 (PTI) BJP candidate Kaustubh Gawade on Wednesday won the Pune Teachers’ constituency in the Maharashtra Legislative Council elections, conducted with ballot papers. Gawade defeated Shiv Sena-backed candidate Sachin Sanap, who is an OSD to state minister Uday Samant, and sitting Congress MLC Jayant Asagaonkar. At the end of 28 rounds, Gawade secured […]
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