Maharashtra Gram Panchayat ballot: A number of heavyweights fail the ballot take a look at in their very own yard

A former leader minister, a serving state party leader, and an Union minister had been amongst those that suffered defeat in their very own backyards within the Maharashtra Gram Panchayat polls, which noticed a number of established village panels chunk the mud.

In Karad South, former Maharashtra leader minister Prithviraj Chavan, a serving MLA, suffered a significant setback, when a BJP-backed panel captured nearly part of the gram panchayats in his meeting constituency. With Chavan’s arch rival Atul Bhosale for my part overseeing the BJP-backed panel’s election marketing campaign, his panel got here on best in different of the massive village panchayats within the area.

Maharashtra BJP president Chandrakant Patil additionally tasted defeat in his personal village, when a panel subsidized through the Shiv Sena scored an disillusioned win over the Patil-backed panel, successful six out of the 9 seats within the Khanapur Gram Panchayat. By the way, the BJP’s native leaders had joined arms with the NCP and the Congress in Khanapur’s panchayat ballot, however they did not halt Shiv Sena’s price.

Shiv Sena MLA Prakash Abitkar, who oversaw the marketing campaign within the high-profile village ballot, mentioned, “Folks of Khanapur are mature and know which party can serve them smartly.”

Patil, when contacted through mediapersons, attempted to distance himself from the defeat. Whilst saying that the BJP-backed panel had misplaced through a small margin, he mentioned, “Because the state BJP leader, all the state used to be my house of operation, no longer simply Khanapur.” The BJP had lately additionally tasted defeat within the Pune Graduates’ constituency polls for the Legislative Council, which had elected Patil on a couple of events prior to now.

Former Maharashtra BJP leader and present Union Minister Raosaheb Danve used to be in a similar fashion jolted after his supporters did not retain the gram panchayat in his personal village in Jalna’s Bhokardan. A Sena-backed panel gained right here as smartly. Danve’s son Santosh is the MLA from Bhokardan.

Actually, Danve used to be handled a double whammy, when his daughter Sanjana Jadhav misplaced her personal election from the Pishor village in Aurangabad. Subsidized through Danve, Sanjana had publish a panel in opposition to her personal estranged husband, Harshvardhan Jadhav, a former MLA, within the native village panel. Whilst Harshavardhan is in prison over an attack case, Aditya, the couple’s son, had run his father’s election marketing campaign in opposition to his personal mom. However the villagers rejected each, electing a panel subsidized through the ruling MahaVikas Aghadi on lots of the seats.

Within the limelight over allegations of grownup impropriety, Maharashtra’s Social Justice Minister and NCP chief Dhananjay Munde scored some other win over his cousin, BJP’s former minister Pankaja Munde, successful six out of the seven seats within the high-profile gram panchayat polls.

Former minister Eknath Khadse, who’s now with the NCP, scored one over his previous party, BJP, successful six out of 11 seats in his local Kothali gram panchayat in Jalgaon’s Muktainagar. A Sena-backed panel gained the rest 5 seats. “The victory symbolises the villagers’ religion in Khadse,” mentioned his daughter Rohini.

In Ahmednagar, former minister and BJP heavyweight Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil suffered a setback in his local village of Loni. A panel subsidized through the Maha Vikas Aghadi gained 13 out of the 17 seats within the village, unseating the Vikhe-Patil’s staff for the primary time in 20 years.

However Narayan Rane, some other BJP heavyweight and a former CM, confirmed that he continues to experience sizeable clout in Sindhudurg. With Rane helming it, the BJP captured 45 gram panchayats within the district. In a setback to native Sena MLA Vaibhav Naik and previous minister Deepak Kesarkar, the Shiv Sena-backed panels gained simply 23 village panchayats, whilst the NCP gained just one.

A number of sitting ministers, together with former CM Ashok Chavan, Balasaheb Patil and Shambhuraj Desai, controlled to retain their hang on a majority of the village panchayats of their talukas. In Koregaon, former NCP minister Shashikant Shinde’s panel suffered defeat by the hands of a Sena-backed panel. Within the Karjat-Jamkhed constituency, MLA Rohit Pawar dealt his rival and previous BJP minister Ram Shinde some other blow, with the previous’s panel prepared seven out of 9 seats in Shinde’s Chondi village.

Within the Ballarpur Meeting seats, sitting MLA and previous minister Sudhir Mungantiwar suffered a blow, with the Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi successful 9 out of 17 seats within the Visapur gram panchayat. In Satara, BJP MP Udayanraje Bhosle’s supporters did not retain energy in Kondve, a village followed through him. A panel subsidized through his cousin Shivendraraje, a a BJP MLA, gained the village election.