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Maharashtra Civic Poll Results 2017 LIVE: Shiv Sena, BJP supporters clash in Mumbai; Congress wiped out from state

Maharashtra Civic Poll Results 2017 LIVE: Shiv Sena, BJP supporters clash in Mumbai; Congress wiped out from state

3Mumbai: Counting was underway on Thursday for polls to 10 civic bodies, including cash-rich BMC, and 25 zilla parishads and 283 panchayat samitis across Maharashtra, the results of which are likely to have a bearing on relations between BJP and Shiv Sena. The Congress and NCP are also in the fray in the polls, dubbed as the ‘mini-general elections’.
The prime focus is on the cash-rich 227-member Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation with the ruling BJP and Shiv Sena at the forefront of this battle of might.
The results after the counting, which began at 10 am today, will determine the fate of 21,620 candidates for 5,777 seats up for grabs in the 10 municipal corporations, 25 zilla parishads and 283 panchayat samitis for which the elections were held in two phases.
Apart from Mumbai, the municipal corporations which went to the polls were Thane, Ulhasnagar, Nashik, Pune, Pimpri-Chinchwad, Solapur, Akola, Amravati, and Nagpur.
BMC elections 2017 (227 wards): Shiv Sena is leading on 90, BJP 77, Congress 31, NCP 7, MNS 7
Thane (130): Shiv Sena 40, BJP 17, Congress 2, NCP 10, MNS 3
Nashik (122): Shiv Sena 22, BJP 40, Congress 6, NCP 6, MNS 3
Pune (162): Shiv Sena 10, BJP 74, Congress 16, NCP 36, MNS 6
Pimpri Chinchwad (128): Shiv Sena 5, BJP 21, Congress 0, NCP 26, MNS 0
Amravati (100): Shiv Sena 1, BJP 18, Congress 3, NCP 0, MNS 0
Ulhasnagar (78): Shiv Sena 19, BJP 28, Congress 1 , NCP 4, MNS 0
Akola (73): Shiv Sena 3, BJP 27, Congress 9, NCP 11, MNS 0
Solapur (102): Shiv Sena 23, BJP 19, Congress 4, NCP 3, MNS 0
Nagpur (145): Shiv Sena 1, BJP 50, Congress 17, NCP 1, MNS 0
Zilla Parishad (25): Shiv Sena 3, BJP 9, Congress 6, NCP 6, Other 1
BJP leader Vinod Tawde says his party has emerged as the overall leader in elections to 10 municipal corporations and 25 zilla parishads. “The BJP is the number one party in Maharashtra,” Tawde, who is also the state’s Education Minister, tells reporters outside the party office amid bursting of firecrackers by BJP workers, who were celebrating the party almost doubling its 2012 poll tally in BMC. “This result is a befitting reply to Sena spokesperson Sanjay Raut, who had said the BJP did not have the ‘aukat’ (ability) to win even 40 seats in the BMC,” Tawde says.
As counting trends showed the Shiv Sena surging far ahead in Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, the BJP says it will “introspect” reasons for the party’s performance which was “not as per expectations”. “We will introspect and find out reasons for our performance in Mumbai, which was not as per expectations,” Maharashtra BJP chief spokesperson Madhav Bhandari says. “We have worked hard to reach the number one position in Maharashtra and have taken the party beyond Mumbai and Thane,” he adds.
BMC polls: Sanjay Nirupam offers resignation from the post of Mumbai Regional Congress Committee chairman after the party’s poor performance.
Shiv Sena’s sitting corporator Yashodhar Phanse has lost from ward no 60 in Lokhandwala Complex, Andheri West.
The supporters of Shiv Sena and BJP clash after some Sena activists burst firecrackers outside the BJP office at Dadar in Central Mumbai as trends for the BMC polls started pouring in.
BMC polls: INC candidate Rajendra Narwankar, who has served the BMC for 33 years, wins from ward number 216 in Mumbai Central

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