BJP’s Kaustubh Gawade with his supporters after winning the Pune seat on Wednesday
As a result, NCP workers did not campaign actively for Mahayuti candidates and were disappointed that their party did not get a ticket,” political analyst Pawar said. Pune: Mahayuti and MVA won two seats each across the five graduates’ and teachers’ constituencies in Maharashtra legislative council elections, while the Nagpur graduates’ constituency emerged as the most dramatic contest, with the result hanging in the balance at the time of going to the press even though Congress claimed victory. “The election results revealed that even though BJP remains the most dominant party in the state, it has yet to secure organic support across all sections of society.
Political analyst Prakash Pawar said the outcome reflected BJP’s miscalculation during seat-sharing talks. It will have to rework its strategy in the state before facing the next elections,” he said. Unlike the opposition parties, whenever we face a setback, we introspect and rework our strategy to win next time,” he said. The results also underline the fact that when qualified candidates are nominated, voters support them,” he said. In a social media post, Patel said: “The election results serve as a definitive wake-up call.
The party tried to use its dominance to dictate seat-sharing arrangements and contest the polls without the support of its alliance partners but failed to garner sufficient support. Senior BJP leader and cabinet minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule rejected suggestions that the results represented a setback. Observers pointed particularly to western Maharashtra, where Mahayuti’s seat-sharing formula left NCP with no constituency to contest in the Pune division. “NCP has traditionally been strong there, but Mahayuti gave Sunetra Pawar’s NCP no seats in the Pune division, with both constituencies going to BJP. Shiv Sena workers were also conspicuously absent from BJP’s Pune campaign. Chief minister Eknath Shinde-led Sena even backed rebel candidates contesting against BJP-supported nominees in the teachers’ constituency. NCP (SP) state president Shashikant Shinde described the outcome as a morale booster. “The election results will be a turning point for our party, as they will send positive signals to our party workers ahead of the next elections. NCP working president Praful Patel termed the result a warning signal and called for sweeping organisational reforms. The time has come for urgent introspection to rebuild trust, realign our priorities and fix our organisational structure. To regain people’s trust, reset the party’s priorities and bring about organisational reforms, an immediate and rigorous self-examination will be necessary. ”
“The five seats were previously held by opposition parties, and we had no seats.