MLC elections: BJP wins Akola, Nagpur seats; major setback for MVA government

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BJP’s MLC nominee Chandrashekhar Bawankule has won the Maharashtra legislative Council elections by defeating Congress backed candidate Mangesh Deshmukh from Nagpur. Bawankule got 362 votes while Deshmukh received 186. Dr Ravindra Bhoyar got one vote. As many as 549 votes have been declared valid.

Meanwhile, in the Akola Buldhana Washim local constituency, BJP nominee Vasant Khandelwal defeated three term legislstor and Shiv Sena nominee Gopikishan Bajoria by 109 votes.

With today’s results BJP won 4 seats while Congress and Shiv Sena one each.

Earlier, two candidates of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and one each of the Shiv Sena and the Congress were elected unopposed to the biennial elections to the state legislative council.