BJP's Victory In Maharashtra "Convincing" Says Devendra Fadnavis
NDTV
The sixth Rajya Sabha seat turned out to be a close affair with the Congress and BJP trading charges, even approaching the Election Commission, which led to an 8-hour delay in counting of votes.
With the BJP winning all three Rajya Sabha seats it contested in Maharashtra, senior party leader Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday said it was a "convincing" victory and attributed it to meticulous planning as well as team work.
Speaking to reporters at the Vidhan Bhavan here, Mr Fadnavis also took a dig at Shiv Sena's Sanjay Raut, who was one of the candidates in the fray, saying 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, former state minister Anil Bonde and Dhananjay Mahadik - won the fiercely-fought elections, while Shiv Sena's Sanjay Raut, NCP's Praful Patel and Congress' Imran Pratapgarhi also came out victorious. The contest was for the sixth seat - between BJP's Dhananjay Mahadik and Sena's Sanjay Pawar, who lost. Mr Mahadik and Mr Pawar hail from Kolhapur in western Maharashtra.
