Congress`s Ravindra Dhangekar received the with the aid of using-elections in Maharashtra’s Kasba Peth today, beating BJP candidate Hemant Rasane with the aid of using over 12,000 votes. Counting is likewise underway for any other seat in Maharashtra’s Pune district. Even aleven though the Election Commission is but to position out the very last result, Congress chief Nana Patole introduced that their candidate in Kasba Peth has received. Congress people accumulated outdoor the counting centre to have a good time the victory.
The Congress controlled to dethrone BJP who were in strength in Kasba Peth constituency for almost 28 years. The polls had been held after the dying of incumbent BJP MLAs Mukta Tilak (Kasba) and Laxman Jagtap (Chinchwad), had been hung on February 26, registering a median voter turnout of fifty consistent with cent.
These had been the primary polls which pitted the BJP and Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena towards the alliance of the Congress, Nationalist NCP and Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena. As the bypolls to Kasba and Chinchwad seats in Pune had emerge as an difficulty of status for the Congress alliance in addition to the ruling Shinde-BJP coalition withinside the state, large leaders like NCP president Sharad Pawar, Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis campaigned for his or her respective candidates.
The Congress had criticised the BJP for forcing its Lok Sabha member Girish Bapat, who’s ailing, to marketing campaign in the course of the election.