Maharashtra's ruling parties claim panchayat polls win. Opposition says ‘true picture only in 2024'

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Mumbai: Less than six months before next years General Elections and amid the heat over the Maratha reservation issue, Maharashtras ruling alliance MahaYuti claimed to have got a shot in the arm Monday with a massive victory in local gram panchayat elections held across different parts of Maharashtra...

The MahaYuti is the name given to an alliance of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena, and the Nationalist Congress Party faction led by Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar...

Elections to Maharashtras 2,359 gram panchayats and 130 vacant sarpanch posts were held across Marathwada, Western Maharashtra, Vidarbha, and Konkan Sunday..

Former Maharashtra home minister and a leader of NCPs Sharad Pawar faction Anil Deshmukh claimed that in Nagpur, MVA won 60 percent of gram panchayats..

He further said: Here also, when Sharad Pawar, Shiv Sena UBT chief Uddhav Thackeray, and Congress leaders will tour the state ahead of Lok Sabha elections, the picture will be clear..

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