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Mumbai: Mahayuti alliance has won nine out of 11 seats in Maharashtra Legislative Council (MLC) elections. There was a lot of cross voting in the MLC (MLA) elections this time too. Mahayuti made a dent in the MLAs of India Alliance and got all its 9 candidates elected. Deputy CM Ajit Pawar said that five MLAs of the opposition alliance have voted for the candidates of Mahayuti. We thank those five MLAs who voted.
MLAs of India Alliance voted for Mahayuti
According to sources, MLAs of Samajwadi Party (SP) and CPI M, which are part of India Alliance, also voted for the candidates of Mahayuti. Congress MLAs Zeeshan Siddiqui and Jitesh Antapurkar are suspected of cross voting. SP has two MLAs in Maharashtra.
7 Congress MLAs cross-voted
According to news agency PTI, at least seven Congress MLAs have cross-voted, disregarding the party’s instructions. Party sources said that the Congress, which has 37 MLAs, had fixed a quota of 30 first preference votes for its candidate Pragya Satav and the remaining seven votes were to go to ally Shiv Sena (UBT) candidate Milind Narvekar. But, Satav got 25 and Narvekar got 22 first preference votes, which means that at least seven Congress MLAs cross-voted.
CM and Deputy CM overjoyed with victory
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde said that we have also got the votes of MVA. Thanks to our colleagues today. Thanks to the opposition as well for helping us. At the same time, Devendra Fadnavis said that this is the beginning. The same result will come in the upcoming elections. We have also got opposition votes.
Opposition got only two seats
Let us tell you that the ruling Mahayuti alliance of BJP, Shiv Sena (Shinde faction) and NCP (Ajit Pawar faction) won all the nine out of 11 seats of the State Legislative Council on Friday. While the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) has registered two seats. BJP has won five seats while Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena and Ajit Pawar-led NCP have won two seats each.
On behalf of the opposition MVA, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray’s close aide Milind Narvekar and Congress candidate Pragya Satav have won. Peasants and Workers Party (PWP) candidate Jayant Patil, supported by Sharad Pawar-led NCP (SP), lost the election.
