CM Shinde Reacts to Sharad Pawar’s Remark on Maharashtra Election Results

GG News Bureau

Mumbai, 6th March. Eknath Shinde, Chief Minister of Maharashtra, has stated that NCP president Sharad Pawar is conveniently ignoring the election results in three North-eastern states while projecting the Kasba Peth Assembly bypoll result as an indicator of change.

Pawar had claimed that the Bharatiya Janata Party’s defeat in the recently held bypoll in its stronghold of Kasba Peth in Pune city by the Congress indicated that winds of change were blowing across the country.

“Pawar is selectively looking at the poll results. He is ignoring the outcome of three states from the North East region but is talking only about the Kasba Peth assembly segment,” Shinde told reporters on Sunday, adding, “I hope Pawar doesn’t doubt EVMs after the Kasba result.”

In the Kasba Peth byelection, Congress-MVA candidate Ravindra Dhangekar easily defeated BJP candidate Hemant Rasne by over 10,800 votes.

The BJP retained Tripura in the recent Assembly elections and will remain a ruling alliance partner in Nagaland. In Meghalaya, the BJP has backed Conrad Sangma’s National People’s Party (NPP) to form a government.

In Maharashtra, the Bharatiya Janata Party shares power with the Eknath Shinde faction, which the Election Commission recently recognized as the ‘Shiv Sena’.

Shinde also took part in the BJP’s ‘Ashirwad yatra’ on Sunday in two of Mumbai’s six Lok Sabha constituencies. The yatra, which aims to connect with voters, will visit the remaining four LS constituencies in stages.