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Informist, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024

 

NEW DELHI – The results for the Maharashtra and Jharkhand assembly elections were declared on Saturday with the Bharatiya Janata Party-led "Mahayuti", or grand alliance, securing a landslide win in Maharashtra and the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha-led Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance retaining power by a bigger margin in ^th tribal-dominated state.

 

The results also threw up some big winners and losers. Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra registered a massive win by a margin of 410,931 votes in the Wayanad Lok Sabha by-election. She polled 622,338 votes. Here is a look at some other prominent winners and losers.

 

WINNERS

Maharashtra Chief Minister and Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde retained his Kopri-Pachpakhadi seat in Thane city by a huge margin of 120,717 votes. Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis of the BJP won his Nagpur South West seat by a margin of 39,710 votes. He polled 129,401 votes. Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar of the NCP retained his stronghold Baramati by a margin of over 100,000 votes. He defeated his nephew and NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar) candidate Yugendra Pawar, who got 80,233 votes against Ajit’s 181,132 votes.

 

Aditya Thackeray of the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) retained his Worli seat in Mumbai by a margin of 8,801 votes. State Congress president Nana Patole was leading in Sakoli by a narrow margin of 208 votes in the last round of counting.

 

In Jharkhand, Chief Minister Hemant Soren of the JMM retained his Barhait seat by a margin of 39,791 votes. He polled 95,612 votes. Soren's wife Kalpana, who was making her electoral debut, won the Gandey seat by a margin of 17,142 votes.

 

Former chief minister Champai Soren, who switched from the JMM to the BJP only three months ago, retained his Seraikella seat by a margin of 20,447 votes. He polled 119,379 votes. BJP state president and former chief minister Babulal Marandi won the Dhanwar seat by a margin of nearly 32,000 votes.

 

LOSERS

Former Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan lost the Karad South assembly seat in Western Maharashtra by over 39,000 votes. The BJP’s Atul Suresh Bhosale won the seat with 139,505 votes.

 

Former Union minister Milind Deora lost the Worli seat. He polled 54,523 votes, but was defeated by Aditya Thackeray, who got 63,324 votes.

 

Amit Thackeray, son of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena founder Raj Thackeray, lost the contest for the Mahim seat in central Mumbai. Thackeray, who was making his electoral debut, got 33,062 votes and stood third. The seat was won by Mahesh Sawant of the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray).

 

Nawab Malik, the controversial NCP leader, stood fourth in the Mankhurd Shivaji Nagar constitutency with 15,501 votes. The seat was retained by the Samajwadi Party’s state unit chief, Abu Asim Azmi.

 

The NCP’s Zeeshan Siddiqui lost his Vandre East seat by a margin of 11,365 votes to debutant Varun Sardesai of the Shiv Sena (UBT). Siddiqui, whose father and former Congress state minister Baba Siddique, was assassinated just last month, got 46,343 votes. Vandre East is the constituency in which the Thackerays reside.

 

Former Union minister Arjun Munda’s wife Meera, of the BJP, lost the Potka assembly seat in Jharkhand by a margin of close to 28,000 votes. Former BJP chief minister Madhu Koda’s wife Geeta lost the Jaganathpur seat by a margin of 7,383 votes.  End

 

Reported by Kuldeep Singh

Edited by Rajeev Pai

 

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