BJP, Sena Bag 2 Seats Each in Maha Vidhan Parishad Biennial Polls

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In a setback to the Congress in Maharashtra, the Shiv Sena and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won two seats, each while the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) bagged one in the biennial election for the Maharashtra legislative council.

Shiv Sena candidates Narendra Darade won from Nasik, while Viplav Bajoriya bagged the Parbhani-Hingoli seat in the upper house in Maharashtra, according to India Today. Pravin Pote and Ramdas Ambatkar emerged victorious from Amravati and Wardha respectively, reported Loksatta.

NCP's Aniket Tatkare won the seat in Konkan. The Congress failed to win any of the seats it contested from.

The Election Commission deferred the counting process for the election to Osamanabad-Beed-Latur seat in view of a court order pertaining to suspension of some members of local bodies in Beed district, PTI reported.

Voting to the six seats of the Maharashtra legislative council's biennial election was held on Monday, 21 May.

The election was held as three members of the NCP, two of the BJP and one of the Congress are retiring from the Upper House of the state Legislature on 21 June.

The term of NCP's Anil Tatkare, who represents the Raigad-Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg local bodies' constituency, will end on 31 May.

Besides, the terms of NCP's Jayant Jadhav (Nashik) and Abdullah Khan A Latif Khan Durani (Parbhani-Hingoli), BJP's Pravin Pote (Amravati) and Mitesh Bhangdia (Wardha-Chandrapur -Gadchiroli) and Congress' Dilip Deshmukh (Osmanabad-Latur- Beed) would end on June 21.

As many as 16 candidates were in fray in the six seats.

The Osmanabad-Beed-Latur seat contest is being viewed as a battle of prestige between state Women and Child Welfare Minister Pankaja Munde (BJP) and her cousin Dhananjay Munde (NCP), the Leader of Opposition in the Legislative Council.

(With inputs from India Today, Loksatta and PTI)