Maharashtra Panchayat Polls 2022: The MVA won 107 seats more than its rival NDA - the alliance of Bharatiya Janata Party and Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde) - that won 357 seats.
Express News Service
MUMBAI: As the Aam Aadmi Party looks to spread its footprints and foray into local polls in various states this year, it has received a shot in the arm by winning a significant number of village panchayat seats in Maharashtra.
Of the total 14,000 gram panchayat seats, the AAP has won 70 seats across 13 districts. Party spokesperson and national executive member Preeti Sharma Menon said, “The AAP has made a splash in Maharashtra politics with a spectacular debut in the recently concluded gram panchayat polls.”
“Our gram panchayat win tally is now 145/300! And we have full majority in 4 villages. This is a historic entry and it shows that the whole country is keen to have the Kejriwal model of governance in their villages and towns,” she said in another tweet.
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MUMBAI: Preliminary reports and data compiled by political parties on Monday suggested that the Shiv Sena was able to bag the largest number of seats and win in nearly 4,500 of the 12,711 gram panchayats in the state where elections were held last week.
While counting of votes was still on at the time of going to press, state Congress president and revenue minister Balasaheb Thorat claimed that the MVA, the ruling coalition of Shiv Sena, Congress and NCP in the state, had swept the polls, securing nearly 10,000 gram panchayats.
A BJP spokesperson countered this, claiming that out of 7,233 gram panchayats where the final results had been declared, the BJP had won 3,131.