The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led Mahayuti alliance has swept the Pune Municipal Corporation Election with 119 seats. The BJP and Shinde Sena alliance has upset the NCP-Ajit Pawar, Sharad Pawar and Congress alliance, the alliance managed to bag 42 seats. In the last municipal election, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) achieved a clear majority securing 97 seats. The civic body election is witnessing a high-voltage contest between BJP and Shinde Sena, NCP alliance and Congress. The Pune Municipal Corporation has a total of 165 seats. Pune Municipal Corporation Election Results Live: BJP leads big in Pune; ahead in 90 seats
- BJP- 119
- NCP-Ajit Pawar- 27
- Congress- 15
- NCP-Sharad Pawar- 3.
- SS-UBT- 1.
The BJP is leading in 25 out of the total 29 municipal corporations. In Sangli, Kolhapur, Vasai-Virar, and Malegaon, the BJP does not have a lead and is facing tough competition from the Congress. Counting of votes for 29 municipal corporations in Maharashtra, including cash-rich Mumbai started at 10 AM amid tight security. As per the early trend, the BJP took lead in Pune, Nagpur, BMC. Around 50 per cent polling was recorded in Mumbai and 28 other municipal corporations in Maharashtra on Thursday, amid a major controversy over claims that the ink applied on voters' fingers could be easily removed.
Maharashtra Mnister Chandrakant Patil said, "Mid trends have started coming in now. Mid trends show that these will go ahead speedily. There is no chance of going backwards. It shouldn't come as a surprise if we cross 125 in Pune...The same is the situation in Mumbai...It is one-sided in Pimpri, the same goes for Kolhapur and Sangli...Across Maharashtra, mahauyti will have a good result. Out of 29, there will be Mahayuti in at least 28; most of these will be from the BJP."
The election results of 29 municipal corporations that include Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), Thane, Ulhasnagar, Kalyan-Dombivli, Aurangabad (Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar), Pune, Nashik, Nagpur, Jalgaon, Ahmednagar (Ahilyanagar), Kolhapur, Bhiwandi-Nizampur, Nanded-Waghala, Malegaon, Latur, Parbhani, Navi Mumbai, Vasai-Virar City, Pimpri-Chinchwad, Solapur, Amravati, Akola, Mira Bhayandar, Panvel, Chandrapur, Sangli-Mirajpur-Kupwad, Dhule, Ichalkaranji, and Jalna will be announced on January 16.
