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MahaYuti wins all 9 council seats
The Morning Standard
|July 13, 2024
Cong and Shiv Sena (UBT) win 1 seat each, but Sharad Pawar-backed party faces defeat
IN a morale booster, the ruling Maha Yuti alliance of the BJP, Shiv Sena (Shinde) and NCP in Maharashtra on Friday won all the nine seats it contested in the biennial elections to 11 seats for the state legislative council.
The Congress and Shiv Sena (UBT) respectively won one seat each but Sharad Pawarbacked Peasant and Workers party (PWP) candidate lost the election. The Mahayuti lost massively in the recent Lok Sabha polls, managing to win only 17 seats out of 48.
In the results announced in the evening for the polls conducted earlier in the day, the BJP won five seats, while Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena and the Ajit Pawarled Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) bagged two each.
This story is from the July 13, 2024 edition of The Morning Standard.
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