How Eknath Shinde-led Mahayuti defeated Opposition in Maharashtra council polls

While the Mahayuti alliance won all nine out of 11 seats it contested, the MVA won two seats, while NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar-backed Jayant Patil lost the elections...

After an impressive performance by the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance in recent Lok Sabha polls, the results of Maharashtra biennial legislative council elections have once again turned the tables, as the NDA-led Mahayuti alliance won all nine seats that it contested out of the 11...

All nine candidates of the Mahayuti alliance, including BJP's Pankaja Munde, won the elections...

Similarly, from the MVA alliance, Shiv Sena (UBT)'s Milind Narvekar and Pragya Satav from Congress won the elections, while Jayant Patil from the Peasants and Workers' Party (PWP), who was backed by Nationalist Congress Party (SP), lost the elections...

Independent MLAs with Maha Vikas Aghadi and MLAs of smaller parties like Bahujan Vikas Aghadi, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen, the Samajwadi Party and the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena are also likely to not have given their first preference votes to Maviya's candidates...

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