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The results of the Legislative Council (MLC) elections held in many states of the country have now been completely revealed, and these results have once again created heat in Indian politics. A very shocking and big news is coming out from the political corridors of Maharashtra that is energizing the opposition camp. Two of the tallest stalwarts of the Bharatiya Janata Party—Chief Ministers of Maharashtra Devendra Fadnavis and Union Minister Nitin Gadkari Home town and main headquarters city of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Nagpur The Congress party has turned the tables. After a tough contest on Nagpur Graduate MLC seat, Congress has given a big blow to BJP by hoisting the flag of victory. Let us know in detail how Congress turned the tables in this great battle of Nagpur and what are the political equations on other Legislative Council seats of Maharashtra.
Abhijeet Vanjari’s spectacular victory on Nagpur graduate MLC seat, BJP suffered a crushing defeat.
In the initial phase of the elections for a total of 5 seats of Maharashtra Legislative Council, the opposition parties were not able to open their account, but after the marathon counting of votes which continued till Wednesday night and early Thursday morning, the picture completely changed. Congress candidate and sitting MLC in a very tough and breath-taking contest on the highly prestigious seat of Nagpur Division Graduates constituency. Abhijit Wanjari Has achieved a brilliant victory.
Abhijeet Vanjari, his nearest rival and BJP candidate sudhakar kohale was defeated by a margin of 3,271 votes. The counting of votes on this seat of Nagpur started on Tuesday morning and after passing through various stages and elimination rounds, its official result was declared in the early hours of Thursday. Congress’s winning candidate Abhijeet Vanjari got a total of 67,231 votes, while former BJP MLA Sudhakar Kohale came second with 63,960 votes. BJP’s defeat in this stronghold of Nagpur is being considered as a big political setback for the party, because on this seat, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Union Minister Nitin Gadkari themselves had campaigned fiercely in favor of Sudhakar Kohale, putting their reputation at stake.
Suspense remained till the last round, ‘second preference’ votes decided the victory and defeat.
The voting and counting process of the Legislative Council Graduate and Teacher elections is quite different from other elections, where voters have to indicate their preferences for candidates. The contest on Nagpur seat also went through a very interesting and exciting phase.
After the second round of counting of first preference votes, BJP’s Sudhakar Kohale had got 60,924 votes, while Congress’s Abhijeet Vanjari had got 56,630 votes. Apart from this, independent candidate Nitish Karale had also made the contest very triangular and interesting by getting 24,249 votes. Since no candidate could get the required quota of votes to win in the first round, the counting of votes proceeded to the ‘Second Preference’ votes and elimination round. After these rounds conducted with complete transparency by the election officials, Congress’s Abhijeet Vanjari finally gained the lead and won. Historically, Nagpur Division Graduates constituency has also been represented for a long time by Union Minister Nitin Gadkari himself, who has been an MLC from here for several terms. In such a situation, this return of Congress is being considered even more important.
What was the situation on other 4 seats of Maharashtra? Maha Vikas Aghadi won
Apart from Nagpur, a close contest was also seen on other four Legislative Council seats of Maharashtra. If we look at the overall results of these elections, the opposition alliance Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) It performed brilliantly and captured 3 out of 5 seats, while the ruling Mahayuti alliance had to be content with 2 seats. The results of these five seats of Maharashtra were as follows:
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Nagpur Graduation Seat: Congress candidate Abhijeet Vanjari won.
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Pune Graduation Seat: Nationalist Congress Party (Sharad Pawar faction) candidate Harshada Deshmukh-Jadhav achieved a spectacular victory.
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Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar Graduation Seat: NCP (Sharad Pawar faction) candidates on this seat also Dr. Pratapsingh Patil Waved the flag.
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Pune Teacher Seat: From the ruling party BJP Kaustubh Gawde Won this seat.
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Amravati Teacher Seat: Candidates of Shiv Sena led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on this seat Kiran Sarnaik won.
These results of Maharashtra Legislative Council have proved that the parties holding ground level in local bodies and special constituencies (graduates and teachers) are in the field with their full strength. By breaking into the BJP stronghold in Nagpur, Congress has infused a new enthusiasm among its workers for the upcoming political anniversary and assembly elections.