In Western Maharashtra, BJP runs to glory while Congress comes a cropper

Of the 58 seats successful Western Maharashtra, the Congress won lone 1 spot successful Sangli arsenic against 11 successful 2019 successful the erstwhile Assembly elections. Now it has nary legislator successful Pune, Solapur, Satara and Kolhapur portion Vishwajeet Kadam is the lone legislator from Paloos-Kadegaon successful Sangli district.

This, contempt the Congress winning the Lok Sabha seats of Solapur and Kolhapur aboriginal this year. The party’s rebel campaigner had besides won successful Sangli and aboriginal became the associated MP. ”This is Congress’s worst show successful Western Maharashtra,” said Ramesh Iyer, Congress wide caput successful Pune.

Kadam, the lone victor for Congress, blamed Mahayuti’s wealth powerfulness and the Ladki Bahin Yojana for the MVA’s mediocre amusement successful Western Maharashtra. “Despite the information that batch of wealth was distributed among voters, I person emerged the winner,” Kadam told the Express. Kadam said elections person go an intolerable tract now. ”Money look to substance a batch successful the elections. The ruling parties near nary chromatic unturned to decision maine with their wealth power… They did a akin happening successful different constituencies successful the state,” said.

In Kolhapur, wherever Congress person Priyanka Gandhi-Vadra had held her rally which had drawn a immense response, the Congress mislaid each the 4 seats isolated from the 1 spot wherever it was backing an autarkic candidate. Congress Kolhapur territory president Satej Patil said the Vishalgad fort contention proved disastrous for the Congress. “Had the Vishalgad contention not happened, we would person proved our mettle successful the elections,” Patil told the Express.

Patil said too the Vishalgad controversy, the Ladki Bahin Yojana besides went against the Congress. “Of the 35 lakh voters successful 10 seats of Kolhapur, 11 lakh voters availed the benefits of Ladki Bahin Yojana,” helium said.

One of the salient losers successful Western Maharashtra was erstwhile main curate Prithviraj Chavan successful Karad South Assembly constituency.

Throughout the campaigning, Chavan was alleging that his hostile was utilizing money-power to bargain voters. “Huge magnitude of wealth is being distributed successful my constituency to decision me…At slightest 8,000 radical person been enactment connected the occupation by the BJP,” Chavan had told this paper during the campaigning. Chavan was defeated by Atul Bhosale of BJP.

The BJP won 24 seats with a maximum of 9 successful Pune, 5 successful Solapur, 4 successful Satara, 2 successful Kolhapur and 4 successful Sangli. It had won 17 seats successful the 2019 Assembly elections.

BJP’s archetypal timer Shankar Jagtap created a grounds of sorts successful Pimpri-Chinchwad arsenic helium won the Chinchwad spot with a borderline of implicit 1 lakh votes, thing which had not happened during the Assembly elections successful Pimpri-Chinchwad. Even his celebrated brother, Laxman Jagtap, who had won thrice had ne'er secured triumph with implicit 1 lakh margin.

The tally of Ajit Pawar-led NCP dropped from 14 to 11 portion that of state Shiv Sena accrued from 5 to 7 taking the full tally of Mahayuti successful Western Maharashtra to 44 of the full 58 seats. The undivided NCP had won 27 seats successful the 2019 elections.

For MVA, the show successful Western Maharashtra is simply a setback contempt the NCP(SP) expanding its tally from six to 7 but the Sharad Pawar led NCP(SP) has nary practice from the bastion of Satara and Kolhapur. The Shiv Sena (UBT) has gained by winning 2 seats against nary legislator successful the outgoing location of authorities legislative Assembly.

The BJP is simply a ascendant enactment successful 4 of the 5 districts by winning maximum fig of seats successful Pune, Solapur, Satara and Sangli portion the confederation spouse Shiv Sena is the ascendant enactment successful Kolhapur district.