BJP AND ALLIES SWEEP MAHARASHTRA COUNCIL ELECTIONS

Mahayuti alliance of BJP, Shiv Sena & NCP won all nine seats it contested in the Maharashtra legislative council elections polls that took place on Friday. Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi, or MVA, won two seats. The third candidate, Sharad Pawar's party-backed candidate Jayant Patil of Peasants Workers Party (PWP), lost the polls.

In the election for 11 vacant MLC seats in the state, Mahayuti had fielded nine candidates and MVA fielded three, making contest on one seat worth watching. The MVA had fielded one extra candidate despite having only 66 seats (For 1 MLC seat, 23 MLA votes are required), hoping for cross-voting. The voting for the MLC elections, which took place in between 9 am and 4 pm at the Vidhan Bhavan Complex saw 100 per cent voting as all 274 MLAs cast their votes.

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