Cong suffers setback in MLC polls, Navalkar romps home

MUMBAI, JUNE 19: The BJP-Shiv Sena alliance won four seats and the Nationalist Congress Party got three while the Congress suffered a setb...

MUMBAI, JUNE 19: The BJP-Shiv Sena alliance won four seats and the Nationalist Congress Party got three while the Congress suffered a setback in the biennial elections to eight seats of the Maharashtra legislative council, results to which were announced here today. Veteran Shiv Sena leader Pramod Navalkar was elected from the Mumbai graduates’ constituency for the third consecutive term. Navalkar, who was pitted against NCP’s Narendra Verma, won the election for the third consecutive time by a margin of 2,900 votes. He received 8,952 votes while Verma polled 6,052. Congress nominee Raghavan Sarathi finished a poor third with a paltry 801 votes.

Sanjiani Raikar, an independent backed by BJP, was also re-elected from the Mumbai teachers’ constituency. She defeated her nearest rival Arvind Vaidya (indepndent) by a margin of 259 votes.

The Congress has turned out to be a big loser. Of the eight constituencies which went to polls on Saturday, four were held by the Congress. Among these, the BJP has snatched the Amravati constituency where its nominee and former state minister Jagdish Gupta defeated the Congress candidate Anwar Khan by 17 votes. BJP also retained its Konkan graduates constituency seat where its nominee Dr Ashok Modak romped home in a direct contest against NCP’s Harishchandra Chavan by a huge margin of about 6000 votes.

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In the Nashik teachers’ constituency, independent candidate Nanasaheb Boraste defeated G V Kulkarni by 326 votes.

The only seat the Congress could win was the Osmanabad-Latur-Beed local authority constituency. Its candidate Dilip Deshmukh has already been elected unopposed from that constituency.

Meanwhile, the biennial election to another 11 seats in the Upper House will be held in the third or fourth week of July, said sources in the state election commission.

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