The biggest winners besides see authorities agriculture curate Dhananjay Munde of the NCP who won by 1.40 lakh votes from Parli successful Beed district. (File)
Even connected the backdrop of an agrarian situation successful the state, with prices beneath Minimum Support Price (MSP) for important currency crops similar Soybean, and aggravated Maratha preservation agitations led by societal activistic Manoj Jarange-Patil, the ruling Mahayuti swept the portion by winning 40 retired of 46 seats. The effect was a crook of fortunes for the ruling confederation arsenic it had mislaid 7 retired of 8 Lok Sabha seats successful the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
For the past year, Marathwada has remained astatine the centre of Maharashtra’s societal and governmental discourse, successful aftermath of an aggravated Maratha agitation demanding OBC presumption to the assemblage and the consequent counter-protests by OBCs opposing the same. The polarisation of castes, the perennial shortage of improvement and the emergence of caller governmental alliances and leaders had turned the electoral conflict for 46 assembly segments successful the portion enigmatic.
The absorption had hoped that the discontent implicit the deficiency of MSP for the Soybean currency harvest volition crook successful its favour arsenic it had promised Rs 7000 MSP aft coming to power. However, the results amusement that the counter-consolidation of non-marathas against the MVA candidates turned successful the Mahayuti’s favour which dethroned a fig of elder leaders from the region.
In Marathwada, Mahayuti swept Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Jalna and Hingoli districts successful this assembly election. The BJP won 19, Shiv Sena,12 and the NCP grabbed 8 seats on with an autarkic campaigner backed by the ruling confederation winning 1 seat. For the opposition, the Congress and NCP(SP) won 1 spot each portion the Shiv Sena (UBT) won 4 seats.
Some apical leaders who mislaid the predetermination include, Dheeraj Deshmukh of Congress from Latur rural, Rajesh Tope of NCP(SP) from Ghansawangi successful Jalna.
Former Congress CM – turned BJP’s Rajya Sabha MP Ashok Chavan – managed to unafraid his location turf of Nanded by ensuring triumph for his girl Shreejaya from the accepted Bhokar spot and besides securing the BJP triumph successful Nanded Lok Sabha bypolls.
The biggest winners besides see authorities agriculture curate Dhananjay Munde of the NCP who won by 1.40 lakh votes from Parli successful Beed district.
The Marathwada portion (Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar division) spans a full country of 64,590 sq km. The part comprises 8 districts of Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar (earlier Aurangabad), Beed, Hingoli, Jalna, Latur, Nanded, Parbhani and Dharashiv (earlier Osmanabad).
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