Maharashtra election results are unexpected and incomprehensible: Uddhav

Shiv Sena UBT chief Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday said that the Maharashtra Assembly election results 2024 are unexpected and incomprehensibleHe said We will keep fighting for the rights of MaharashtraUddhav questioned How can situation change so drastically in four months after Lok Sabha pollsHe further said that cannot believe Maharashtra which listened to me as head of family during Covid will behave with me this wayThe BJPled Mahayuti alliance on Saturday retained power in Maharashtra maintaining sway over 230 of the 288 assembly seats while the Maha Vikas Aghadis dream of wresting power fizzled with the opposition combine ahead in just 50 seats LIVE httpstcoPvAhg2GB0Zmdash ShivSena Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray ShivSenaUBT_ November 23 2024While results have been declared in 164 seats counting of votes which began at 8 am is still in progress in the remaining 124 seats election officials said as per the PTIAfter the certainty of the poll outcome the focus has now shifted to BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis the architect of his partys stunning victory Political circles are abuzz with reports that the states second Brahmin to become the CM will don the post for the third timeThere is already speculation that the swearing in of the new CM may take place as early as Monday and that too in the same venue the sprawling Wankhede Stadium in south Mumbai where Fadnavis was sworn in as the CM 10 years agoAccording to the PTI as per the latest figures from the Election Commission the BJP has so far won 35 seats and is leading in 78 the Shiv Sena won 27 and is ahead in 29 seats while the NCP has won 25 and is leading in 16 seatsIn the Maha Vikas Aghadi the Nationalist Congress Party SP candidates won 6 seats and were leading in 4 seats Congress won 5 and its candidates were leading in 11 seats while Shiv Sena Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray won 11 and was leading in 9 seatsThe opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi suffered a crushing defeat with its candidates leading in just 50 seats a far cry from the boasts till this morning by many of its senior leaders that the combine will trounce the MahayutiGoing by the results Maharashtra may not have a leader of opposition in the Lower House as norms stipulate that a party should have at least 10 per cent of the total members of the assembly and not cobble up the number as an allianceMaharashtra Election 2024 results LiveSaturdays winners include BJPs Kalidas Kolambkar who defeated Shiv Sena UBTs Shraddha Jadhav by 24973 in Wadala constituency after 16 rounds to become a legislator for the ninth time in a rowMaharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and his deputies Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar won in their respective assembly constituencies while senior Congress leaders Prithviraj Chavan and Balasaheb Thorat lost in theirs Congress leader Nana Patole was trailing behind his BJP rival in Sakoli seat by 1607 votes after 25 of the 28 roundsEknath Shinde said that the results of the assembly elections were historic and showed to whom the Nationalist Congress Party and Shiv Sena belong toDevendra Fadnavis said there was no dispute over the chief ministers post and leaders of Mahayuti will decide on the issue together as the saffron partyled coalition is heading for a landslide victoryThe results show that the state supports PM Narendra Modi he said and also thanked women voterswith PTI inputs