Congress has suffered a big setback in the assembly elections held in Maharashtra. The party has suffered a crushing defeat in the state. Congress, which is part of Mahavikas Aghadi, has won only 16 seats. Meanwhile, the statement of senior party leader and former Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan has come to light. He says that the defeat of Congress is very shocking and this is the worst performance of the party so far in the state assembly elections. In this election, many big leaders of MVA including Chavan lost the election.
The former Chief Minister said that the party had never done such a demonstration before. No one expected such results. Along with this, he also said that the Mahayuti government’s Ladki Bahin scheme to provide financial assistance to women was liked by the voters of rural areas, people were impressed by this scheme and they voted in favor of Mahayuti. At the same time, polarization affected the prospects of Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) in the urban areas of the state.
BJP candidate defeated Chavan
In the assembly elections, Prithviraj Chavan also contested from Karad South seat. However, he also had to face defeat. BJP candidate Atul Bhosale defeated him by a margin of 39,355 votes. Chavan said it was difficult to say whether the election was a wave or rigged. But the way the election results have come are very shocking for the Congress Party. No one expected such results.
‘Congress’s defeat is shocking’
He said that he was expected to win the Karad South seat of Satara district by 5,000 to 6,000 votes, but it did not happen. All the candidates of Mahavikas Aghadi lost in the district by a margin of about 40,000 votes. Chavan said that in the 1977 Lok Sabha elections, Congress had got 20 out of 48 seats in Maharashtra, which was the lowest. At the same time, this time the party has had its worst performance in the assembly elections so far, it is a shocking defeat.
Great performance of Mahayuti in elections
Last Saturday, 23 November, the Election Commission had declared the results of the elections. In which Mahayuti had a spectacular victory. BJP has performed well in the elections. Voting for 288 assembly seats in the state was held on November 20. in which the great alliance
Won 230 seats. In the elections, BJP won 132 seats, Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde) 57 and NCP (Ajit Pawar) 41 seats. At the same time, Congress-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) was reduced to 46 seats. In this, Shiv Sena (Uddhav faction) got 20 seats, Congress 16 and NCP (Sharad Pawar) 10 seats. Samajwadi Party won on 2 seats.
