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Maharashtra Congress main Nana Patole (left), NCP-SP campaigner Rohit Pawar (centre), and the NCP’s Dilip Walse-Patil (right). (PTI/Express Photos)
Maharashtra Congress main Nana Patole, the NCP’s Dilip Walse-Patil, Mahesh Sawant of the Shiv Sena (UBT) and NCP (SP) campaigner Rohit Pawar were among the 10-odd candidates who won the Assembly elections by constrictive margins.
However, the lowest borderline of triumph successful the authorities was registered successful Malegaon Central, wherever the AIMIM’s Mufti Mohammad Ismail Abdul Khalique retained the spot by defeating Asif Sheikh Rashid, campaigner of the ISLAM party, by conscionable 162 seats.
Patole, who was trailing for the amended portion of the counting process connected Saturday, managed to triumph the Sakoli spot by a borderline of conscionable 208 votes. Postal ballots saved him the time arsenic helium defeated the BJP’s Avinash Brahmankar.
Other candidates who won by less than 1,000 votes see the BJP’s Manda Mhatre (margin 377 votes) successful Belapur and the Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Gaikwad successful Buldhana (margin 841 votes).
Candidates who won by conscionable implicit 1,000 votes included Sharad Pawar’s grandnephew Rohit Pawar, who won the Karjat-Jamkhed spot by 1,243 votes. He defeated the BJP’s Ram Shinde for the 2nd consecutive time. While the NCP’s Ajit Pawar defeated different of his nephews successful Baramati, the Mahayuti failed against Rohit contempt going each retired to decision him. The spot is successful Ahilyanagar district.
On the concluding time of the campaigning, Sharad Pawar held a rally for Rohit successful Karjat-Jamkhed. Rohit had led Supriya Sule’s Lok Sabha canvass run against Sunetra Pawar, woman of Ajit Pawar, who was astatine the forefront of the Mahayuti’s efforts to decision Rohit, NCP (SP) leaders said.
The NCP’s Dilip Walse-Patil managed to decision Devdutt Nikam of the Sharad Pawar-led enactment by 1,523 votes successful the Ambegaon constituency of Pune district. A erstwhile Assembly speaker, Walse-Patil had won the spot for 7 consecutive terms.
Among the astir riveting contests was the combat for Mahim successful Mumbai, wherever MNS main Raj Thackeray’s lad Amit had to wound the particulate connected his electoral debut. He finished 3rd arsenic Mahesh Sawant of the Sena (UBT) bushed the Shiv Sena’s Sada Sarvankar by a borderline of 1,316 votes.
In Indapur, the NCP’s Dattatraya Bharne defeated Harshvardhan Patil for a 3rd consecutive time. He had joined the NCP (SP) conscionable earlier the elections aft quitting the BJP. Bharne’s triumph borderline is 19,410 votes.
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