Beating the drums loud, BJP-Sena combine over-shines Maharashtra

News Bharati    23-May-2019
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Mumbai, May 23: With the polls count underway jolting the Modi wave to heat up again for the second term, the BJP heads in Mumbai have began beating the drums. All eyes being glued to the televisions and online trends, the state of Maharashtra engaged in the 48 seats abide, sets to thrust the NDA government for 41 seats of the total, other 6 being occupied by UPA and 1 other.
 
 
The BJP-Shiv Sena combine is also leading in all six seats of Mumbai with candidates of the two saffron allies establishing comfortable leads over their Congress and NCP rivals. As per trends available so far, Congress leader Milind Deora is trailing in Mumbai-South against sitting Shiv Sena MP Arvind Sawant by 17,774 votes.
 
The combine was ahead in 44 of the 48 Lok Sabha constituencies in Maharashtra, appeared to have got an unassailable lead in around half a dozen seats, as per trends are available so far. The BJP was ahead in 24 seats and the Sena in 20, while the NCP was ahead in three and the AIMIM in one seat. Senior BJP leaders and Union ministers Nitin Gadkari and Subhash Bhamre were leading in Nagpur and Dhule seats respectively.
 
Congress was not leading in any seat in Maharashtra. Nandurbar, being the only seat, is also now going the BJP way. In spite of huge rallies by MNS chief Raj Thackeray, has not worked in Mumbai and elsewhere as BJP-Sena candidates are leading in Mumbai.
 
Meanwhile stressing specifically at the NCP developments, the first time contestant Parth Pawar from Maval has been out of the race by 1.5 lakh votes. Supriya Sule however is leading with 13 per cent vote share in Baramati, her total vote count being 665888 by 2:30 pm. In Buldhana Shiv Sena got 223809 votes while the Ncp candidate gets 162523, a difference of 61286 votes.