MAHARASHTRA ELECTIONS NEWS

 Elections to the Maharashtra Legislative Council: BJP candidates win, but MVA suffers from cross-voting in Sena and Congress.

Opposition leader Devendra Fadnavis celebrates after BJP's victory, at the Vidhan Bhavan on Monday. 

The BJP received 133 votes, up from 106 votes in the Assembly. The additional 27 votes from other parties and Independents cleared the door for its win over MVA, which had a better chance of attaining the required number of votes.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won the state Legislative Council elections on Monday, defeating the Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance by electing all five of its candidates — Pravin Darekar, Ram Shinde, Shrikant Bharatiya, Uma Khapre, and Prasad Lad. The ruling alliance, on the other hand, was left red-faced when Congress' Dalit face, Chandrakant Handore, was defeated after cross-voting by at least three Shiv Sena and Congress MLAs, as well as smaller alliance members. This is the ruling MVA's second consecutive loss in less than two weeks, after the BJP defeated MVA in the Rajya Sabha elections on June 1

The BJP received 133 votes, up from 106 votes in the Assembly. The additional 27 votes from other parties and Independents cleared the door for its win over MVA, which had a better chance of attaining the required number of vote

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 Within the MVA, the two NCP candidates won comfortably. Eknath Khadse (29 votes) and Ramraje Nimbalkar (27 votes) risen triumphant. The NCP, which has 51 MLAs, surveyed 56 vote

While the Shiv Sena's two candidates, Amashya Padavi and Sachin Ahir, won the polls with the requisite quota of 26 votes each, the party was left angry when at least three of its MLAs engaged in cross-voting. Shiv Sena received only 52 votes out of a total of 55 votes cast, leaving three votes unaccounted for

Despite having 44 MLAs, neither of the Congress's two candidates, Bhai Jagtap and Chandrakant Handore, were able to go through the first round. Their two candidates received 19 and 22 votes in the first round, for a total of 41 votes, against 44 votes in the second roun

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