Senior Congress leader Prithviraj Chavan
The Congress has suffered a major setback in the assembly elections held in Maharashtra. The party has suffered a crushing defeat in the state. The Congress, which is part of Mahavikas Aghadi, won only 16 seats. Meanwhile, senior party leader and former Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan’s statement has come to light. He says the Congress’ defeat is very shocking and this is the party’s worst performance so far in the state assembly elections. In this election, many big MVA leaders including Chavan lost the elections.
The former Chief Minister said the party had never held such a rally before. Nobody expected such results. Along with this, he also said that the Mahayuti government’s Ladki Bahin scheme to provide financial assistance to women was liked by rural voters, people were impressed by this scheme and voted in favor of Mahayuti. At the same time, polarization affected the prospects of Mahavikas Aghadi (MVA) in the urban areas of the state.
BJP candidate defeated Chavan
In the assembly elections, Prithviraj Chavan also contested from Karad South seat. However, he also had to face defeat. BJP candidate Atul Bhosale defeated him by a margin of 39,355 votes. Chavan said it was difficult to say whether the elections were a wave or rigged. But the way the election results have come is very shocking for the Congress Party. Nobody expected such results.
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“The defeat of Congress is shocking”
He said he was expected to win the Karad South seat of Satara district by 5,000 to 6,000 votes, but it did not happen. All Mahavikas Aghadi candidates lost in the district by a margin of about 40,000 votes. Chavan said that in the 1977 Lok Sabha elections, the Congress won 20 of 48 seats in Maharashtra, which was the lowest number. At the same time, this time the party has had its worst performance in the assembly elections so far – it is a shocking defeat.
Mahayuti’s great performance in the elections
Last Saturday, November 23, the Electoral Commission announced the results of the elections. In which Mahayuti won a spectacular victory. The BJP has done well in the elections. Voting for 288 assembly seats in the state was held on November 20. In which Mahayuti won 230 seats. In the elections, the BJP won 132 seats, Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde) 57 and NCP (Ajit Pawar) 41 seats. At the same time, the Congress-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) party was reduced to 46 seats. In this, Shiv Sena (Uddhav faction) won 20 seats, Congress 16 and NCP (Sharad Pawar) 10 seats. Samajwadi Party won with 2 seats.
