BJP increases its tally in Maharashtra seats with high Muslim numbers, Congress tumbles

Of the 3 remaining seats, the Samajwadi Party won Mankhurd-Shivaji Nagar and Bhiwandi East, portion the AIMIM got Malegaon Central.

While the Congress won Mumbadevi, Akola West, Dharavi, Malad West, and Latur City, the BJP took Bhiwandi West, Aurangabad West, Andheri West, Akot, Vandre West, Solapur Central, Nagpur Central, Dhule, Sion Koliwada, Karanja, Pune Cantonment, Raver, Washim, and Malkapur.

Apart from the Congress, the results are a disappointment for the AIADMK, arsenic admitted by a enactment person speaking disconnected the record. The enactment that had hoped to amended its show successful Maharashtra by contesting less seats and focusing its vigor and resources connected them – it enactment up candidates successful 16, compared to 44 5 years agone – failed to adjacent lucifer its 2019 tally of 2 seats.

Among those who mislaid was its salient authorities main Imtiaz Jaleel, who finished 2,000-odd votes down the BJP successful Aurangabad East.

In the lone spot the AIMIM won, the Muslim-majority Malegaon Malegaon Central, its campaigner Mufti Ismail, the sitting MLA, scraped done by conscionable 162 votes – the narrowest borderline successful the state.

The caller Maharashtra Assembly volition person 10 Muslim MLAs, the aforesaid arsenic successful 2019. This is 0.03% of the total; the assemblage makes up astir 11.56% of the state’s population.

The fig of Muslim MLAs successful Maharashtra has ne'er gone beyond 13, reaching this successful 1972, 1980 and 1999. The lowest tally was successful 1995, astatine 8.

The Muslim MLAs this clip are the Congress’s Amin Patel, Aslam Shaikh and Sajid Pathan; the NCP’s Sana Malik and Hasan Mushrif; the Sena (UBT)’s Haroon Khan; the Shinde Sena’s Abdul Sattar; the AIMIM’s Mufti Ismail; and the SP’s Abu Azmi and Rais Shaikh Haroon Khan.

Among the large Muslim names who mislaid was Nawab Malik and Zeeshan Siddique of the NCP, and Arif Naseem Khan of the Congress.

For the AIMIM’s Jaleel, the Assembly nonaccomplishment comes adjacent connected the heels of his decision from Aurangabad successful this year’s Lok Sabha polls, a spot helium had won successful 2019.

The Malegaon Central spot that the AIMIM retained saw its triumph borderline driblet from much than 38,000 votes successful 2019 to 162. What volition interest the enactment is that the scare to its campaigner Mufti Ismail – who survived 2 wellness setbacks during the run – was fixed by a tiny outfit called the Indian Secular Largest Assembly of Maharashtra (with acronym ISLAM).

In the Dhule City spot that the AIMIM had won too Malegaon Central successful 2019, it finished implicit 45,000 votes down the BJP this time.

Aside from these seats, the AIMIM repeated its show from 2019 successful Aurangabad Central, Aurangabad East, Byculla, and Solapur City Central, ending 2nd again.

The AIMIM’s 2019 victories successful Maharashtra had been its archetypal extracurricular its country of power successful Hyderabad successful Telangana. This had prompted the enactment to effort its luck successful Bihar the adjacent year. After it won 5 seats successful Bihar, it contested successful West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and adjacent Tamil Nadu, but failed to unfastened its relationship anywhere.

Sources said the AIMIM picked the 16 seats it chose to contention this clip successful Maharashtra successful regions wherever it had beardown organisation and support. Even successful 2014, the enactment had contested much constituencies, 24, successful Maharashtra.

Apart from a focused campaign, the AIMIM besides hoped to consolidate Dalit and Muslim votes down it, and hence fielded candidates successful 4 SC-reserved seats – Miraj successful Sangli, Murtijapur successful Akola, Kurla successful Mumbai and Nagpur North successful Nagpur. None could garner immoderate important votes.

Before the polls, the AIMIM had said it had reached retired to the INDIA bloc for an alliance. Jaleel had told The Indian Express that helium had not got immoderate response.

The AIMIM’s descent successful Maharashtra follows mediocre show successful successive elections recently, including the Lok Sabha polls, wherever lone its main Owaisi won from Hyderabad.

BJP 14: Bhiwandi West, Aurangabad West, Andheri West, Akot, Vandre West, Solapur Central, Nagour Central, Dhule, Sion Koliwada, Karanja, Pune Cantonment, Raver, Washim, Malkapur,

Congress 5: Malad West, Latur City, Mumbadevi, Akola West, Dharavi

Shinde Shiv Sena 6: Aurangabad Central, Kurla, Chandivali, Nanded North, Nanded South, Beed

Shiv Sena (UBT) 6: Byculla, Versova, Bandra East, Parbhani. Kalina, Balapur

Ajit Pawar NCP 2: Amravati, Anushakti Nagar

Samajwadi Party 2: Mankhurd-Shivaji Nagar, Bhiwandi East

NCP (SP) 2: Mumbra Kalwa, Jalna

AIMIM 1: Malegaon Central