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‘9 out of 9’: BJP and allies sweep Maharashtra council elections | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: 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 vote...
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Video | Mahayuti Meeting Highlights: Reasons Of Losing LS Polls Decoded

The Mahayuti Alliance today called for an all-party meeting including its newly elected MPs, MLA and grassroot level workers where Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, Ajit Pawar spoke about the important issues that lead to the failure of the Mahayuti Lok Sabha polls. The leaders also ensured that the workers were motivated enough to ensure that the alliance performs well in the upcoming Vidhan Sabha polls. Source link
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Hopeful of cross-voting, MVA fields 3rd candidate for Maharashtra MLC polls
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Hopeful of cross-voting, MVA fields 3rd candidate for Maharashtra MLC polls

Mumbai: On Tuesday, the final day of nominations for the 12 July Maharashtra Legislative Council polls, the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) fielded Milind Narvekar, a close aide of party chief Uddhav Thackeray, as Maha Vikas Aghadi’s third candidate. But going by the current composition of the state legislative assembly, which serves as the electoral college for the MLC elections, MVA has the numbers to get only two elected.  The ruling Mahayuti alliance has fielded nine candidates — five from the Bharatiya Janata Party, two from Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde) and Nationalist Congress Party (Ajit Pawar) each. Show Full Article With 14 vacancies in the 288-member house, the current strength of the assembly is 274. Each candidate needs the votes of 23 MLAs ...
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NCP (SP) won’t settle for less in assembly seat-sharing, Sharad Pawar hints at party meet | India News – Times of India

PUNE: The NCP (SP) agreed to contest fewer seats than its Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) allies during the Lok Sabha elections but the situation would be different in the assembly polls, a party leader has quoted its supremo Sharad Pawar as saying. Pawar held two meetings here on Friday, one with the party's functionaries from Pune city and district, and another with its MLAs and newly-elected MPs.City NCP (SP) chief Prashant Jagtap, who attended the first meeting, said Pawar told the gathering that the party contested fewer seats in the Lok Sabha polls just to ensure that the alliance with the Shiv Sena (UBT) and Congress remained intact. "He indicated that the picture in the assembly polls will be different," said Jagtap. The NCP (SP) chief also reviewed the situation in assembly segments wi...
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‘Sawal Hi Nahi…’: NCP-SP Chief Sharad Pawar, Shiv Sena-UBT On Taking Back Rebels — WATCH

Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray and NCP (SP) supremo Sharad Pawar outlined on Saturday that they have no intention of re-accepting leaders who left their parties. The Shiv Sena underwent a split in June 2022, due to Eknath Shinde, who went on to become Maharashtra Chief Minister. Similarly, the Nationalist Congress Party broke into two factions after Ajit Pawar joined the state government along with eight MLAs in July the previous year. The opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi, which includes the Shiv Sena (UBT), the NCP (SP), and the Congress, performed impressively in the state's Lok Sabha elections, sparking speculation that some leaders from the rival factions want to return. However, in the MVA's first press conference following the Lok Sabha results...
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‘Three legs of a rickshaw’: Uddhav Thackeray targets NDA govt with Devendra Fadnavis’s old remark for MVA | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray drew a parallel on Saturday between Devendra Fadnavis's past remark of the MVA government as the "three legs of a rickshaw" and the present condition of the BJP government at the center. Thackeray said, "Devendra Fadnavis told us that our government is like the three legs of a rickshaw, and the condition of the BJP government at the center is also the same," during a joint press conference of Maha Vikas Aghadi leaders in Mumbai.He also voiced strong criticism of the BJP following the Lok Sabha elections, questioning the party's narrative and promises. Speaking on the BJP's slogan of securing 400 seats, Thackeray questioned, "What happened to the narrative of good days, what happened to Modi's guarantee?" "BJP itself gave the slogan of 40...
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Video | Maharashtra Politics: विधानसभा चुनाव से पहले महाराष्ट्र में क्या है सियासी समीकरण? | Elections 2024

लोकसभा चुनाव के बाद महाराष्ट्र में गठबंधनों के बीच की गांठें जैसे बड़ी होती जा रही हैं। अब कुछ दल अकेले चुनाव लड़ने की संभावना टटोल रहे हैं। इस बीच शरद पवार के एक बयान से महाराष्ट्र की सियासत को और गरमा दिया है। Source link ...
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Video | ‘No MVA Chief Minister Face for Maharashtra Assembly Polls’: Prithviraj Chavan

In an exclusive conversation with NDTV, Maharashtra Former Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan said "No Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) Chief Minister face for Maharashtra Assembly polls". Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has said that the ruling Mahayuti suffered losses in the Lok Sabha polls owing to the Opposition's claim that the Constitution would be amended and caste-based reservation done away with if the BJP returned to power. Source link
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‘Campaign on local concerns, better coordination’ — how MVA prevailed over Mahayuti in Maharashtra

Ahead of the polls, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena and the Ajit Pawar-led NCP formed the Mahayuti whereas Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray), NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar) and Congress formed the MVA. The Congress, reduced to just one seat in Maharashtra in 2019, emerged as the party with the maximum number of seats this time, clinching 13 of 48 constituencies. Contesting 17 seats, the Congress recorded a strong strike rate of 76 percent.Among other MVA parties, the Shiv Sena (UBT) won nine of the 21 seats it contested at a strike rate of 42.8 percent. The NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar) also registered an impressive performance, winning eight or 80 percent of the ten seats it fought. These two parties had to fight with new symbols as the Election Commission...
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Uddhav Thackeray’s ‘offer’ to Nitin Gadkari draws jeers from BJP

A file photo of Union Minister Nitin Gadkari and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis. | Photo Credit: PTI Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Uddhav Thackeray’s open offer to senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Nitin Gadkari to leave the BJP and contest as a candidate from the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) met with derision from the saffron party.Mr. Uddhav Thackeray, speaking at a rally in Latur, had again picked on the BJP for reportedly ‘excluding’ Mr. Gadkari from its first list of 195 candidates while announcing the name of former Maharashtra Minister Kripashankar Singh, accused of graft charges, for the Jaunpur seat.Exhorting Mr. Gadkari to resign from the BJP instead of “bowing before Delhi”, Mr. Thackeray said he would get the Union Minister elected as a MVA candidate in the comin...
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