Mumbai: With the BJP winning all three Rajya Sabha seats it contested in Maharashtra, senior occasion leader Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday said it used to be a “convincing” victory and attributed it to meticulous planning in addition as physique of workers work.
Speaking to journalists on the Vidhan Bhavan right here, Fadnavis furthermore took a dig at Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Raut, who used to be one of many candidates within the fray, announcing that BJP’s Dhananjay Mahadik secured more votes than him.
The BJP had fielded three candidates out of the total six Rajya Sabha seats that went to polls on Friday.
BJP candidates – Union minister Piyush Goyal, broken-down notify minister Anil Bonde and Dhananjay Mahadik – received the fiercely-fought elections, while Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Raut, NCP’s Praful Patel and Congress’ Imran Pratapgarhi furthermore got right here out victorious. The competition used to be for the sixth seat – between BJP’s Mahadik and Sena’s Pawar, who misplaced. Mahadik and Pawar hail from Kolhapur in western Maharashtra.
“It’s some distance a convincing victory for the BJP and it’s some distance never lawful adding up of numbers. Had even (jailed NCP leader and Maharashtra minister) Nawab Malik been allowed to solid his vote within the election and even though Sena had no longer misplaced one of its votes, the BJP would have mute received the third seat,” he said.
Hitting out at Raut and his tirade towards the BJP, Fadnavis said, “The peril of the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) is so harmful that BJP’s third candidate secured more votes (41.56) than MVA’s first candidate Sanjay Raut (41). BJP’s two diverse candidates already secured 48 votes each and every.”
“It used to be our meticulous idea and physique of workers work. I would namely thank BJP’s two severely-ill MLAs – Laxman Jagtap and Mukta Tilak – as both of them travelled to Mumbai in an ambulance and voted for their enhance to the occasion,” he said.
“I had even educated the relations of our sick MLAs that they ought to mute no longer just about Mumbai for voting. But they insisted on exercising their franchise and got right here in ambulances,” he added.
The broken-down chief minister said that with this win within the Rajya Sabha elections, the BJP has started its victory march, which he said would continue till the subsequent polls.
“This consequence reveals what folk need within the notify to happen as energy used to be taken away from us in 2019 by backstabbing,” he alleged without naming the Shiv Sena.
The BJP and Shiv Sena had contested the 2019 assembly election jointly, however they parted ways following the consequences after variations erupted true through the two events over sharing the chief minister’s post.
The high-stake fight for the sixth Rajya Sabha seat grew to become out to be a nail-biting affair with the Congress and BJP trading costs, even drawing advance the Election Commission, which resulted in an eight-hour extend in counting of votes. The poll panel directed the Rajya Sabha election returning officer of Maharashtra to reject the vote solid by Shiv Sena legislator Suhas Kande, after which the counting of votes bought underway after 1 am on Saturday.
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