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Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar while reacting to the BJP win in three out of six seats in Rjaya Sabha Polls has said that he is not at all surprised by the results. Pawar added that his party received one extra vote that came from an independent legislator, who was tilted towards the opposite side.
BJP candidates — Union minister Piyush Goyal and former state minister Anil Bonde, and Dhananjay Mahadik — won the fiercely contested election conducted on Friday.
Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Raut, NCP’s Praful Patel and Congress’ Imran Pratapgarhi also came out victorious. Sena’s second candidate Sanjay Pawar lost to BJP’s Mahadik.
“I am not shocked to see the results. If you see the votes polled by every candidate of (Maha Vikas Aghadi allies) NCP, Shiv Sena and Congress, they received the votes as per the quota. Only Praful Patel (of NCP) received one extra vote and I know from where it came. That was not MVA’s vote, it was from the opposite side,” Pawar told reporters in Mumbai.
He added that for the sixth seat, contested by Shiv Sena, there was a big gap, but MVA showed courage and put in efforts.
BJP had more Independent MLAs on their side, but for both, BJP and MVA, the number of votes were not sufficient,” he said.
The miracle happened because BJP’s Devendra Fadnavis managed to get the Independents on their side…which made all the difference. But this will not affect the stability of govt (Maha Vikas Aghadi) said Pawar as quoted by ANI
“The sixth seat was a risk for the MVA, but Uddhav Thackeray took the risk. In politics, one has to take risks,” he said.
