Maharashtra local body polls: Mahayuti registers decisive victory, says Athawale

After the ruling Mahayuti alliance in Maharashtra registered a decisive victory in the Maharashtra local body elections Union Minister Ramdas Athawale termed it a great success saying that the coalition has secured a good result in the entire municipal polls reported news agency ANIThe Mahayuti has achieved a great success and it has secured a very good result in the entire municipal election The mayor of Mumbai and Pune will be from the Mahayuti and the Mahayuti will achieve 90 per cent success everywhere We should get 1415 seats that is what we are striving for Athawale told reportersIn response to the results Shiv Sena leader Shaina NC said that the results clearly demonstrated public endorsement of the leadership of Deputy Chief Minister Eknath ShindeSpeaking to ANI the Shiv Sena leader said In the 2017 local body elections the Shiv Sena had only 27 mayors In 2025 we won at more than 60 locations and are hopeful of winning at nearly 70 This is due to the leadership of Dy CM Eknath Shinde who has campaigned tirelessly on the ground People have chosen to vote on development and not on surnames Those who believe they can conduct their politics from home have been required to remain at home In this election it has been proven that only the politics of performance worksEchoing similar sentiments Maharashtra Minister Girish Mahajan stated There have been elections for the Nagar Panchayat in 18 places Of those 18 places the BJP has won in 10 We have got a very good result here The voters have also supported us There are many reasons for losing the elections People have different opinions But we have accepted defeat where we have not won The Chief Minister has been to all the big cities in every district and we have won everywhere reported ANIBJP leader Kirit Somaiya highlighted numerical gains saying In the municipal council elections in Maharashtra the BJP secured a majority in 129 seats while Uddhav Thackerays Shiv Sena managed to get a majority in only eight municipal corporations The BMC elections 2026 are on January 15th this is what the situation will be like for Uddhav Thackeray and the other younger Thackeray who has joined him reported ANIAt the grassroots level Shiv Sena candidate Om Prakash Khursaday who won the Malegaon Nagar Panchayat election in Washim district said This victory belongs to the people who blessed us with their votes Our leader Eknath Shinde arrived here before the election to attend a meeting This victory belongs to the people more than usIn Baramati the NCP Ajit Pawar faction winning candidate Sachin Satav thanked voters for a decisive mandate saying The people of Baramati have elected me with a huge majority today but this victory comes with a great responsibility For the next five years under the guidance of Dy CM Ajit Pawar we will work for the overall development of the entire cityReacting to the results state minister Sanjay Shirsat said the polls reflected the hard work of party workersHe said These are elections of the workers The remarkable thing was that Dy CM Eknath Shinde worked diligently every day during the election campaign We admit that we werent fully prepared if we had started planning a few days earlier we could have won more seatsFadnavis thanks peopleEarlier on Sunday Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis thanked the people of the state for placing their trust in the Bharatiya Janata Party BJP and the Mahayuti alliance and for giving them a decisive victory in the recently concluded local body pollsFirst of all I thank the people of Maharashtra The people of the state have given massive support to the BJP and the Mahayuti I had already predicted that among the municipal council chairpersons elected 7537 would be from the Mahayuti and the people have delivered exactly that verdict It has also become clear that the Bharatiya Janata Party is the number one party he said in a press conference in NagpurHe also congratulated his alliance partners including Eknath Shinde and Ajit Pawar and the BJP leaders on the partys performanceElections on 286 Municipal Councils and Nagar Panchayats were held in two phases as some councils went to polls on December 2 while the remaining cast their votes on December 20Multiple key local bodies including Baramati Ambernath went to polls Two councils saw candidates being elected unopposed too in Angar in Solapur and Dondaicha in DhuleAround 129 municipal council chairpersons have been elected from the BJP Together all three alliance parties Shiv Sena BJP and NCP Ajit Pawar account for 75 per cent of the city council chairpersons In terms of corporators over 3300 candidates of the BJP have been elected according to Chief Minister FadnavisWith inputs from ANI