Of the five MLC seats from the graduate and teacher constituencies, MVA won 4 and BJP none; the lone seat he won was on the Council by voting for the local Dhule-Nandurbar body. One seat, the Amravati division teachers’ constituency, was won by an independent candidate, with Shiv Sena in second place and BJP in third.
The momentum for MVA was made more significant by their victory in the Nagpur Teachers Constituency maintained by BJP for more than five decades.
The biennial council elections were important to him, as it was the first time that the alliance of three parties – Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress – participated in elections under the banner of the MVA. Although Sena did not secure the lone seat (Amravati) that he challenged, the victory was seen as vital to CM Uddhav Thackeray’s leadership.
Three graduate constituencies, two teacher districts, and a local agency seat had gone to the polls. Congress won Nagpur (graduates) and Pune (teachers), while NCP won Aurangabad and Pune (both graduate constituencies).
In Nagpur, the hometown of BJP leaders like Nitin Gadkari and Devendra Fadnavis, Congressional nominee Abhijeet Wanjari defeated BJP’s Sandeep Joshi by a margin of 18,710 votes.
According to legislative council records, Ramjeevan Choudhary de Jan Sangh was elected there in 1971, followed by Devendra Fadnavis’s father, Gangadharrao, who represented the seat for two terms. Later, Gadkari represented the constituency for 25 years and after his election to the Lok Sabha in 2014, he was replaced by Anil Sole, a former mayor of Nagpur. For the 2020 election, Sole was denied the nomination and was replaced by Joshi, a trusted aide to Fadnavis. Wanjari got 61,701 votes to Joshi’s 42,991.
Members of the congressional cabinet Balasaheb Thorat, Nitin Raut, Anil Deshmukh and Sunil Kedar drafted the MVA strategy in Nagpur.
The BJP also lost the Pune Graduate Constituency, which was previously represented by BJP State President Chandrakant Patil. NCP’s Arun Lad defeated BJP’s Sangram Deshmukh by a margin of 48,824 votes. In the Pune teachers’ constituency, Jayant Asgaonkar from Congress defeated independent candidate Datta Sawant, a sitting lawmaker, while BJP candidate Jeetendra Pawar was relegated to third place.
In the Amravati division teachers’ constituency, independent candidate Arun Sarnaik defeated Sena nominee Shrikant Deshpande, while BJP’s Nitin Dhande was pushed to third position. In the Aurangabad graduate constituency, NCP’s Satish Chavan defeated BJP’s Shirish Boralkar, winning the seat for the third time in a row.
The result of the Dhule-Nandurbar legislative council by election was declared earlier, on Thursday night. BJP candidate Amrish Patel won the seat with 332 votes against Abhijeet Patil from Congress, who managed to get just 98 votes.
A total of 434 out of 437 voters exercised their right to vote in the Dhule-Nandurbar bypoll, which took place when Amrish Patel resigned as MLC last year after he left Congress to join the BJP. By registering this victory, he won the MLC surveys for the third time.
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