Maharashtra results 2024: Congress big guns lose big, ex-CM Chavan, Thorat bite the dust in Karad, Sangamner seats

The Congress had ever dominated the Karad South seat. In 1951 and 1957, Yashwantrao Mohite was elected from the Peasants and Workers’ Party (PWP). After that, Mohite joined the Congress. He won connected Congress tickets from 1962 to 1978. From 1980 to 2009, that is for 7 consecutive times, Vilasrao Patil Undalkar won from the seat. In 2014 and 2019, Chavan won the seat. He had to enactment a hard combat some times.

In this election, Chavan alleged that BJP attempted to bribe voters. “It has fielded a affluent campaigner erstwhile again. The campaigner has mislaid against maine twice, yet BJP has fielded him due to the fact that helium has batch of money,” Chavan had said.

Chavan had besides alleged that Fadnavis was targetting apical Congress leaders. “Fadnavis wants to decision maine and different apical Congress leaders,” helium had told this paper.

During his rally successful Karad, Fadnavis said helium was assured the upwind was blowing successful the different absorption now. “Hava-oke rookh badal rahe hain,” helium had said,, which drew immense cheers from the crowd. Fadnavis had described Prithviraj Chavan arsenic planetary worldly and not authorities assembly material.

Another Congress idiosyncratic to suffer was elder enactment person Balasaheb Thorat, whose proximity to the Gandhi household is well-known. Rahul Gandhi had stayed astatine his spot during the 2019 elections.

Thorat, who had won the Sangamner spot (in Ahilyanagar district) for 8 consecutive times, mislaid to archetypal timer Amol Khatal of the Shiv Sena led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde.

While Khatal notched up 1,12,386 votes, Thorat secured 1,01,826 votes. Thorat mislaid by 10,560 votes.

Thorat had really decided not to contention the election. Instead, helium had decided to tract his daughter, Jayshree Thorat. It was expected to beryllium Thorat’s past election.

His nephew MLC Satyajeet Tambe said, “t is perfectly shocking. No words tin explicit the feeling of this decision since we person worked tirelessly for this constituency for the past 40 years.”

Earlier speaking to this insubstantial successful Sangamner, Tambe had said that Thorat would triumph the spot comfortably arsenic helium had slogged relentlessly for the improvement of the constituency. “Our drinking h2o presumption is acold amended than the neighbouring spot of Shirdi,” helium had claimed.

Top MVA leaders had held rallies for Thorat. However, for Khatal erstwhile BJP MP Sujay Vikhe-Patil held arsenic galore arsenic six rallies portion his begetter Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil besides held a rally. Radhakrishna VIkhe-Patil himself won the neighbouring Shirdi spot for the 8th consecutive time. Last 2 elections, helium had won connected BJP ticket. Before that helium had won connected Congress and Shiv Sena tickets.

”Khatal had ne'er contested an predetermination before. He was Mahayuti Government main of the Sanjay Gandhi Niradhar Yojana,” said a Sena leader.