BJP president Chandrashekhar Bawankule on Monday claimed 259 candidates supported by his party and 40 nominees backed by the Eknath Shinde faction of the Shiv Sena have been elected as sarpanches.
BJP president Chandrashekhar Bawankule on Monday claimed 259 candidates supported by his party and 40 nominees backed by the Eknath Shinde faction of the Shiv Sena have been elected as sarpanches.
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MUMBAI: Even as all the results for the gram panchayat elections in Maharashtra were still to come in till late Tuesday evening, claims and counterclaims by the Maha Vikas Aghadi and the BJP on the outcome continued, with all parties barring the BJP admitting that the Shiv Sena had emerged victorious in a majority of the gram panchayats.
While the Sena claimed it had won 3,113 gram panchayats out of a total of 12,711, the BJP maintained that it was the biggest party, having registered wins in 5,781.
Sena spokesperson Harshal Pradhan said the party had won in 3,113 gram panchayats, followed by the BJP (2,632), NCP (2,400) and the Congress (1,823). In the 2017 gram panchayat elections, the Sena had won only 637 gram panchayats out of 7,590 that had then gone to the polls.