Mumbai: Riding on the momentum from its solid exhibiting within the November 2024 assembly elections, the BJP has extra expanded its footprint in Maharashtra at the same time as the political bases of different parties are worried, a celebration office-bearer mentioned on Saturday.
The evaluate by the BJP’s chief spokesperson, Keshav Upadhye, was primarily based entirely on the saffron celebration’s stellar exhibiting within the civic polls all over 29 municipal companies, a day after the outcomes were declared.
The BJP-led Mahayuti alliance is determined to near lend a hand to vitality in 25 of the 29 municipal companies, at the side of Mumbai.
In a social media put up, Upadhye acknowledged the celebration gained 1,430 seats within the civic polls, up from 1,137 in 2017.
He well-known that the alternative of municipal companies in Maharashtra rose from 27 to 29 after Ichalkaranji and Jalna were granted civic body build.
The BJP gained each and each recent companies by happy margins, in step with info released by the relate election commission.
Upadhye acknowledged the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena gained 397 seats all over the 29 civic bodies, while the Ajit Pawar-led NCP secured 160 seats.
The Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena gained 153 seats statewide, a inspiring decline from the 501 seats it had gained in 2017. The NCP (SP) managed only 36 seats, down from 309 in 2017, he added.
The Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, which had gained 27 seats in 2017, was diminished to 13 this time. In the intervening time, smaller parties and independents gained a complete of 357 seats.
“While other parties are shrinking their political space, the BJP is expanding in Maharashtra,” Upadhye mentioned, noting that Shiv Sena (UBT) managed double-digit wins in unbiased two municipal companies.
