Mumbai, October 24
Some prominent opposition leaders who had joined the ruling BJP or Shiv Sena, including cabinet minister Jaydutt Kshirsagar, have bitten the dust in the Maharashtra Assembly elections.
Kshirsagar, fighting on the Shiv Sena ticket, was defeated by his nephew and NCP candidate Sandip Kshirsagar.
Vaibhav Pichad, son of former NCP minister Madhukar Pichad, had joined the BJP few days before the elections. He lost to Dr Kiran Lahamate of the NCP by 57,689 votes from the Akole seat.
Lahamate was a BJP worker for many years and had been in the camp opposed to the Pichad family.
Irked by state BJP’s decision to induct Vaibhav, Lahamate joined the NCP and won the election. Two MLAs who had joined the Shiv Sena before the polls — Pandurang Barora and Nirmala Gavit — also lost the elections from Shahapur and Igatpuri.
Barora was an NCP MLA and Gavit a Congress legislator. Former minister Harshvardhan Patil, who left the Congress to join the BJP, so that he could contest from his home turf, Indapur, lost to NCP’s Duttatray Bharane.
Gopaldas Agrawal, Congress MLA from Gondia and head of the Public Accounts Committee during 2014-19, had joined the BJP before the polls. But he failed to retain the seat this time.
There were others who succeeded in winning the elections after joining the ruling parties. Congress leader and former Leader of Opposition in the Assembly Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil, who joined the BJP and was made cabinet minister, won from Shirdi.
NCP leader Ganesh Naik, who joined the BJP, won from Airoli against NCP’s Ganesh Shinde by 57,622 votes. Ranajagjitsinh Patil, another NCP heavyweight (and nephew of party stalwart Ajit Pawar) who had joined the BJP, won from Tuljapur. — PTI
Maximum City gives min seats to Cong
Riven by infighting ahead of the polls, the Congress managed to win just four seats of the 29 it contested in Mumbai, faring poorly than in 2014
Congress candidates Aslam Sheikh, Varsha Gaikwad and Amin Patel retained their Malad West, Dharavi and Mumbadevi constituencies, respectively, while party nominee Zeeshan Siddique wrested the Bandra East seat from the Shiv Sena
In 2014, the Congress had won five seats in Mumbai, which has 36 Assembly segments. One of its sitting MLAs, Kalidas Kolambkar, who had won from Wadala, successfully contested as the BJP nominee from Mumbai South Central
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