Sena wins majority Marathwada seats

The BJP-Shiv Sena alliance manages to hold Marathwada region. Shiv Sena won four seats while BJP and Congress recorded two seats. Sharad Pawar-led NCP could only win one seat in the Marathwada region. As per trending results available from different constituencies on the Assembly polls’ website, the Sena is leading in 13, BJP in 8, Congress in 7 and NCP in 9 seats.

In Marathwada, state minister Atul Save is trailing behind the AIMIM candidate in the Aurangabad east constituency. Congress candidate Gorantyal Kailas Kisanrao has defeated state minister Arjun Khotkar in Jalna. While the Sena’s Jaiswal Pradeep Shivnarayan has won from the Aurangabad central constituency,

which is reserved for the general category. Mr Shivnarayan had won this seat in the 2009 Assembly polls as well, defeating the NCP candidate by a margin of 8,384 votes.

In Parbhani, the Sena’s Dr Rahul Vedprakash Patil has won while in Hingoli, the

BJP’s Tanhaji Sakharamji Mutkule has won. In Bhokar in Nanded district, the Congress’s Ashok Chavan has defeated the BJP’s Bapusaheb Gorthekar by 97,000 votes. The Bhokar seat has been a bastion of Mr Chavan, who belongs to an influential political family based in Nanded and is the son of Shankarrao Chavan, former chief minister.

In Osmanabad, the Sena’s Kailas Balasaheb Ghadge Patil has won while in Beed, the NCP’s Sandeep Ravindra Kshirsagar has won. The BJP is contesting the state Assembly polls in alliance with the Sena and other smaller parties (Mahayuti).

The people of Vidarbha have reposed their faith in Congress. The BJP had to bite dust and their toll claim of crossing 220 proved to be a joke. The Congress-NCP has a bright future — Nitin Raut, Cong leader