Maha Vikas Aghadi wins five seats in Maharashtra Legislative Council elections

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) bagged five seats in the Maharashtra Legislative Council (MLC) elections which were held yesterday.

 

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and Shiv Sena won two each while Congress was able to manage only one seat out of the total 10 seats. As many as eleven candidates were in the fray for the elections to the ten seats in the MLC. All the five candidates of the BJP-- Pravin Darekar, 

Ram Shinde, Shrikant Bharatiya, Uma Khapre and Prasad Lad emerged victorious. NCP candidates-- Ramraje Nimbalkar and Eknath Khadse-- and the



Shiv Sena nominees- Aamshya Padavi and Sachin Ahir also secured their seats. Of the two candidates fielded by Congress, Bhai Jagtap managed to win while Chandrakant Handore lost. 

BJP's winning candidate claimed that cross-voting happened among members of Shiv Sena and Congress.The Members of the Assembly voted in the legislative Council elections at Vidhan Bhawan in Mumbai today. The BJP has 106 MLAs, Shiv Sena 56, NCP 53 and Congress has 44 MLAs. A total of 285 members cast their votes in the MLC polls.