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MUMBAI: Two candidates each of the ruling coalition allies NCP and the Shiv Sena and four nominees of the opposition BJP on Monday night won elections to the Maharashtra Legislative Council (MLC), said an official. All the eight candidates secured the minimum quota of 26 votes each to make it to the Upper House of the state legislature, said the official. Chairman of Legislative Council and NCP candidate Ramraje Nimbalkar, Leader of Opposition in the Upper House Pravin Darekar of the BJP and former BJP minister and now NCP nominee Eknath Khadse easily bagged sufficient number of first preference votes to post wins. The final vote tally will be announced when all the rounds of counting is over, the official said. Both the candidates of the Shiv Sena -- Sachin Ahir and Aamshya Padavi - also won the election, while the two nominees of the Congress, which is part of the ruling coalition MVA, failed to secure the minimum quota of the first preference vote. The BJP had fielded five candidates - Darekar, Ram Shinde, Uma Khapre, Shrikant Bharatiya and Prasad Lad - of which the first four have already bagged the minimum quota of votes required to win the poll. Atul Bhatkhalkar, an MLA of the BJP said, "Darekar secured 29 votes of first preference, while Ram Shinde and Bharatiya secured 30 votes of first preference each. It means, our excess votes of top three candidates on the list will be transferred to our fifth candidate Prasad Lad." "If you count all the votes of first preferen...

NAGPUR: The Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) suffered its first major setback in Vidarbha since forming the government in Maharashtra in 2019. It lost both the Nagpur and Akola-Buldhana-Washim seats by crushing margins in the MLC local authority constituency biennial polls the results of which were announced on Tuesday. Earlier, the BJP had lost the graduates’ constituency and zilla parishad polls and bypolls to the three-party coalition of MVA. The BJP has won four out of six seats where elections were held on December 10. There were no polls for four seats after an unofficial pact between the rival factions. It included two seats in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) where BJP’s Rajhans Singh and Shiv Sen’s Sunil Shinde won. The Congress and BJP bagged one seat each at Kolhapur (minister of state Satej Patil) and Nandurbar-Dhule (Amrish Patel), respectively. Though it was an expected win for the saffron party’s Chandrashekhar Bawankule, in Akola-Buldhana-Washim constituency, it pulled a coup of sorts by defeating Shiv Sena’s Gopikishan Bajoria, a three-time MLC, by a margin of 109 votes even though MVA constituents had over 400 out of the 822 voters. As reported by TOI on December 12, Prakash Ambedkar’s Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA) played a key role in ensuring BJP’s Vasant Khandelwal’s victory along with some independents. While Khandelwal secured 443 votes, Bajoria polled 334 out of the 808 valid votes. This means that the BJP bagged a big number of 157 votes from the...

Maharashtra Legislative Council Election Result 2023:The counting of votes for elections to five seats of the Maharashtra Legislative Council began at 8 am on Thursday, an official said. The six-year term of five Council members - three from teachers and two from graduates constituencies - is expiring on February 7 and polling was held on Monday to fill up the upcoming vacancies. While the Konkan teachers constituency had recorded the highest voter turnout at 91.02 per cent, the Nashik division graduates seat logged the lowest polling at 49.28 per cent. The teachers constituencies of Aurangabad and Nagpur recorded 86 per cent and 86.23 per cent voting, respectively, while the Amravati division graduates constituency seat saw a voter turnout of 49.67 per cent. The contest for biennial elections to the Upper House of the state legislature was primarily between the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-Balasahebanchi Shiv Sena (faction led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde) combine and candidates backed by the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) comprising the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray), the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). Follow Live Updates | Maharashtra MLC Election Results 2023 All eyes were on the Nashik division graduates' seat, where the Congress saw a rebellion in its ranks in the run-up to the polls. Three-time MLC Sudhir Tambe was the official Congress candidate from the seat, but he did not file his nomination papers. As he opted out of th...

MUMBAI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won five of the ten legislative council seats in Maharashtra on Monday while in the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) —NCP and Shiv Sena secured two seats each and Congress managed to secure one seat. BJP’s fifth candidate Prasad Lad secured 28 votes and won the election. Last week Fadnavis had ensured the win of all the three Rajya Sabha candidates. State BJP president Chandrakant Patil said the party secured 134 preferential votes. The party has 106 MLAs besides the support of seven other MLAs. He fully credited Fadnavis for the BJP’s victory. The opposition leader said he didn't not believe in miracles. “It is the discontent within the MVA that has come to the fore and converted into votes,” said Fadnavis. He hugged Girish Mahajan, the party MLA from Jalgaon, as he came down to speak to the media. Mahajan has been instrumental in holding successful negotiations with Hitendra Thakur’s Bahujan Vikas Aghadi which has three MLAs. Fadnavis said only he knows the truth (on the MLAs who voted for the BJP). He has succeeded in splitting 21 votes. “I thank all the MLAs from all the parties as also the independents who helped us and ensured the victory of our fifth candidate. In the Rajya Sabha elections we secured 123 votes in this election we secured 134 votes. Right from the beginning, I have been saying there is a lot of anger in the Maha Vikas Aghadi. There is no coordination between the three parties. We had no votes for the fifth candidate bu...

Express News Service MUMBAI: The Maharashtra state legislative council elections result put the Uddhav Thackeray government in a danger zone, where the BJP secured 134 votes against the majority of 145 in 288 members of the state assembly. In this election, Maha Vikas Aghadi support base has eroded badly from 169 votes to 151 only. In MLC elections, BJP secured total 134 votes against 123 in recent Rajyab Sabha elections while Maha Vikas Aghadi’s support base of 169 MLAs shrunk to 151 votes. Maha Vikas Aghadi faced the major setback of cross-voting of its alliance partners MLAs to BJP in this high voltage political election. According to the MLC elections data, Congress candidates Bahi Jagtap and Chandrakant Handore together got 41 votes against the party’s official 44 votes. It shows three MLAs of the Congress-crossed votes. Shiv Sena also faced humiliation because of the decrease in votes for its both candidates Sachin Ahir and Ameshya Padvi. Shiv Sena has 55 MLAs after the death of its one MLA Ramesh Latake and it has the support of seven independent and smaller parties. So, Shiv Sena had fixed the 32 votes quota for each candidate but in the result of the election, they got only 26 each votes only. The 26 votes were base numbers to win the elections. ALSO READ | Interestingly, NCP the alliances' partners of the Maha Vikas Aghadi not only succeeded to keep its all flock together but it also secured other parties' and independent MLA's votes for their candidates. NCP had...

As MVA, BJP pray for 'political miracle', MLC polling begins Polling for the biennial elections to 10 seats of Maharashtra Legislative Council started with both the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi and Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party praying for a 'political miracle' for the one crucial seat on which there's a main contest among 11 candidates, here on Monday. All 6 MVA candidates will win Maharashtra MLC polls: Sanjay Raut As voting was underway on Monday for the elections to 10 seats in the Maharashtra Legislative Council, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut expressed confidence that all six nominees of the ruling allies will win the polls. All top leaders of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA-comprising the Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress), including Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and Congress leaders Nana Patole, Balasaheb Thorat, Mallikarjun Kharge, were holding discussions with each other over the polls, Raut told reporters.

Within a space of 10 days, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Maharashtra has managed to land two body blows to the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government. The first was the win in the Rajya Sabha elections and the second was the victory in the State Legislative Council elections. After the BJP’s victory in Maharashtra where it won three seats in the Rajya Sabha elections, opposition leader Devendra Fadnavis declared that this was just the first step. He was clearly referring to the Maharashtra Legislative Council elections just a week away. On June 20, the BJP won five of the 10 Council seats. The prediction was that the BJP would win four and that the NCP would get two, the Sena two and the Congress one. The Congress candidate lost and the BJP won the 10th seat. The candidates for the Council seats from the BJP were Praveen Darekar, Ram Shinde, Shrikant Bharatiya, Uma Khapre and Prasad Lad. The Sena had put up Aamshya Padavi and Sachin Ahir. The Congress had nominated Chandrakant Handore and Bhai Jagtap and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) had fielded Ramraje Nimbalkar and Eknath Khadse. BJP workers celebrate after party won 5 seats in Maharashtra MLC elections, at Vashi in Navi Mumbai on June 21. | Photo Credit: PTI Here is the maths. To win, each candidate required 27 votes. In the 288-member State Legislative Assembly, the Sena can call on 55 votes, which would see both its candidates through. The NCP, too, can see through both its candidates with its 54 seats. The C...

Mumbai: In the first electoral test of the Shinde-Fadnavis government in Maharashtra, Opposition Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) has won two and is leading in one of the five graduate and teachers’ legislative council seats while the BJP, in a major upset, lost the Nagpur seat –the home turf of deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Union minister Nitin Gadkari. The party is trailing in one more Vidarbha seat of Amravati. The BJP, however won the Konkan seat, the stronghold of Shiv Sena (UBT), while Congress rebel and independent candidate Satyajeet Tambe won the Nashik seat. The three teachers’ constituencies of Konkan, Aurangabad and Nagpur, and two graduates constituencies of Nashik and Amravati went to polls on 30 January and counting of votes began Thursday. The ruling BJP lost the Nagpur teachers’ constituency to MVA candidate Sudhakar Adbale (Congress) who defeated Nagorao Ganar by a margin of 8,489 votes. This is the second time the BJP lost in Nagpur. The party could not win the graduates’ constituency election in 2020 for the legislative council when Congress took the seat which was once with Gadkari. However, Fadnavis told the media Thursday, “We could not win Nagpur but that seat was fought by the teachers’ parishad. Both Konkan and Nagpur seats are fought by the parishad but we asked them to give it to us so we can fight directly. In Konkan they agreed while in Nagpur they did not so we supported their candidate. But we could not win and we ar...

Mumbai: In the first electoral test of the Shinde-Fadnavis government in Maharashtra, Opposition Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) has won two and is leading in one of the five graduate and teachers’ legislative council seats while the BJP, in a major upset, lost the Nagpur seat –the home turf of deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Union minister Nitin Gadkari. The party is trailing in one more Vidarbha seat of Amravati. The BJP, however won the Konkan seat, the stronghold of Shiv Sena (UBT), while Congress rebel and independent candidate Satyajeet Tambe won the Nashik seat. The three teachers’ constituencies of Konkan, Aurangabad and Nagpur, and two graduates constituencies of Nashik and Amravati went to polls on 30 January and counting of votes began Thursday. The ruling BJP lost the Nagpur teachers’ constituency to MVA candidate Sudhakar Adbale (Congress) who defeated Nagorao Ganar by a margin of 8,489 votes. This is the second time the BJP lost in Nagpur. The party could not win the graduates’ constituency election in 2020 for the legislative council when Congress took the seat which was once with Gadkari. However, Fadnavis told the media Thursday, “We could not win Nagpur but that seat was fought by the teachers’ parishad. Both Konkan and Nagpur seats are fought by the parishad but we asked them to give it to us so we can fight directly. In Konkan they agreed while in Nagpur they did not so we supported their candidate. But we could not win and we ar...

Within a space of 10 days, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Maharashtra has managed to land two body blows to the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government. The first was the win in the Rajya Sabha elections and the second was the victory in the State Legislative Council elections. After the BJP’s victory in Maharashtra where it won three seats in the Rajya Sabha elections, opposition leader Devendra Fadnavis declared that this was just the first step. He was clearly referring to the Maharashtra Legislative Council elections just a week away. On June 20, the BJP won five of the 10 Council seats. The prediction was that the BJP would win four and that the NCP would get two, the Sena two and the Congress one. The Congress candidate lost and the BJP won the 10th seat. The candidates for the Council seats from the BJP were Praveen Darekar, Ram Shinde, Shrikant Bharatiya, Uma Khapre and Prasad Lad. The Sena had put up Aamshya Padavi and Sachin Ahir. The Congress had nominated Chandrakant Handore and Bhai Jagtap and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) had fielded Ramraje Nimbalkar and Eknath Khadse. BJP workers celebrate after party won 5 seats in Maharashtra MLC elections, at Vashi in Navi Mumbai on June 21. | Photo Credit: PTI Here is the maths. To win, each candidate required 27 votes. In the 288-member State Legislative Assembly, the Sena can call on 55 votes, which would see both its candidates through. The NCP, too, can see through both its candidates with its 54 seats. The C...