MUMBAI: BJP on Tuesday claimed to have won the highest number of seats in the elections to 7,682 gram panchayats across the state. It also claimed that BJP-Balasahebanchi Shiv Sena alliance had got the maximum seats. However, MVA too made similar claims of having won the most seats.
The gram panchayat elections are contested by individuals and not as members of political outfits, though many of the contestants are affiliated to parties. Hence, the rival claims on the seats won. According to the BJP, while it has won 2,482 seats, the Eknath Shinde faction has emerged successful in 842.
The Congress claimed to have won 900 seats. In Nagpur district, it said it had emerged the winner in 200 of 236 seats. The BJP, however, disputed the figure, saying the Congress had won 809 seats, while the NCP had secured 1,287. The Shiv Sena (UBT) has won 639 seats, it said, with others securing 1,135.
The State Election Commission (SEC) had announced elections to 7,751 gram panchayats. However, in the case of 69, members were elected unopposed. Hence, only 7,682 went to polls on Sunday. The SEC announced the results for all 65,916 gram panchayat seats, of which 14,028 saw members elected unopposed. Direct elections were also held for the post of sarpanch. In elections conducted for 7,619 sarpanch posts, 699 were elected unopposed. Sixty-three gram panchayats saw no nominations being filed for the post of sarpanch.
Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis said BJP had once again proved it is the No. 1 party in the state. Terming the results as “historic”, BJP state president Chandrashekhar Bawankule claimed that it showed rural Maharashtra trusted the new government.
CM Eknath Shinde said while the opposition had criticised his regime for doing little for farmers, it was his government’s pro-farmer decisions that reflected in the gram panchayat elections.
State Congress chief Nana Patole dismissed the saffron leaders’ claims as hollow, saying BJP had lost in Fetari village adopted by it and in the hometown of Bawankule.
AAP retained the Kawalewadi gram panchayat in Osmanabad district as also the Siddhanath gram panchayat in Nanded district and Sarola gram panchayat in Aurangabad. In Jalgaon, the brother of a victorious candidate in Jamner died of a cardiac arrest amid stone-pelting.
The gram panchayat elections are contested by individuals and not as members of political outfits, though many of the contestants are affiliated to parties. Hence, the rival claims on the seats won. According to the BJP, while it has won 2,482 seats, the Eknath Shinde faction has emerged successful in 842.
The Congress claimed to have won 900 seats. In Nagpur district, it said it had emerged the winner in 200 of 236 seats. The BJP, however, disputed the figure, saying the Congress had won 809 seats, while the NCP had secured 1,287. The Shiv Sena (UBT) has won 639 seats, it said, with others securing 1,135.
The State Election Commission (SEC) had announced elections to 7,751 gram panchayats. However, in the case of 69, members were elected unopposed. Hence, only 7,682 went to polls on Sunday. The SEC announced the results for all 65,916 gram panchayat seats, of which 14,028 saw members elected unopposed. Direct elections were also held for the post of sarpanch. In elections conducted for 7,619 sarpanch posts, 699 were elected unopposed. Sixty-three gram panchayats saw no nominations being filed for the post of sarpanch.
Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis said BJP had once again proved it is the No. 1 party in the state. Terming the results as “historic”, BJP state president Chandrashekhar Bawankule claimed that it showed rural Maharashtra trusted the new government.
CM Eknath Shinde said while the opposition had criticised his regime for doing little for farmers, it was his government’s pro-farmer decisions that reflected in the gram panchayat elections.
State Congress chief Nana Patole dismissed the saffron leaders’ claims as hollow, saying BJP had lost in Fetari village adopted by it and in the hometown of Bawankule.
AAP retained the Kawalewadi gram panchayat in Osmanabad district as also the Siddhanath gram panchayat in Nanded district and Sarola gram panchayat in Aurangabad. In Jalgaon, the brother of a victorious candidate in Jamner died of a cardiac arrest amid stone-pelting.
