MAHAYUTI SWEEPS PUNE DISTRICT

The Mahayuti - an alliance of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and Eknath Shinde's has faction of Shiv Sena secured a landslide victory in Pune by winning 18 Assembly seats out of the 21 in the district.

- Gaurav Kadam

The Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), comprising the Congress, Sharad Pawar's NCP and Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena, managed to bag only two seats, while an independent won one seat in the district.

The BJP managed to retain Pune Cantonment, Shivajinagar, Parvati, Khadakwasla, Kothrud, Bhosari, Chinchwad and Daund, while it wrested the Kasba Peth Assembly seat from the Congress. Pune Cantonment will once again be represented by Sunil Kamble, Siddharth Shivajinagar by Shirole, Khadakwasla by Bhimrao Tapkir, Kothrud by Chandrakant Patil, Bhosari by Mahesh Landge and Daund by Rahul Kul. The saffron party had changed its candidate in Chinchwad, nominating its Pimpri-Chinchwad chief Shankar Jagtap instead of his sister-in-law Ashwini Jagtap, who was the incumbent MLA.