RS polls in Maha: Swabhimani Paksha MLA Bhuyar says he voted in favour of Sena

Swambhimani Paksha MLA Devendra Bhuyar on Sunday claimed he voted for the Shiv Sena in the recent Rajya Sabha polls to six seats from MaharashtraShiv Senas second nominee Sanjay Pawar lost the bitter contest on Friday to the BJPOn Saturday Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut said three MLAs of the Bahujan Vikas Aghadi BVA an independent MLA from Karmala Sanjaymama Shinde Swabhimani Paksha MLA Devendra Bhuyar and PWP MLA Shyamsunder Shinde did not vote for the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi MVAcomprising the Sena NCP and Congress despite assuring to do soRaut said they had taken note of this development and that Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray was distressed over the defeat of Sanjay PawarTalking to a TV channel at the Nagpur airport on Sunday Bhuyar said it was wrong on Sanjay Rauts part not to trust himI had openly told the media that I voted for Sanjay Pawar and Sanjay Raut he saidBhuyar said if he had been a Sena MLA and not voted for the party then he could have been called gaddaar traitorThe legislator claimed he is close to NCP leaders Sharad Pawar Ajit Pawar and Jayant Patil and voted for the Shiv Sena as per their directionsTo a query he claimed the Shiv Sena candidate got defeated due to lack of coordination by the partyBhuyar said he will reach Mumbai on Sunday and meet Sharad Pawar to convey that it was wrong on part of Raut not to trust himI am with the MVA from the very beginning Sanjay Raut is a big leader but before levelling such allegations he should have discussed the issue with us or could have enquired about the issue he saidThe bitter contest on Friday saw three candidates of the BJP Piyush Goyal Anil Bonde and Dhananjay Mahadik winning the pollsThe Sena Raut NCP Praful Patel and Congress Imran Pratapgarhi won one seat eachOf the 284 valid votes Goyal polled 48 Bonde 48 Mahadik 4156 Raut 41 Pratapgarhi 44 and Patel 43The 288member Legislative Assembly constituted the electoral college for the elections But the total votes came down to 285 since there was a vacancy due to the death of Shiv Sena MLA Ramesh Latke and a court rejecting the pleas filed by minister Nawab Malik and former minister Anil Deshmukh seeking a days bail to vote in the electionsBoth the BJP and the Shiv Sena had approached the Election Commission alleging breach of election rules and seeking disqualification of votesThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever