Maharashtra Gram Panchayat ballot: Several heavyweights fail the ballot check in their very own yard

A former chief minister, a serving state social gathering chief, and an Union minister have 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 chew the mud.
In Karad South, former Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan, a serving MLA, suffered a significant setback, when a BJP-backed panel captured virtually half of the gram panchayats in his meeting constituency. With Chavan’s arch rival Atul Bhosale personally overseeing the BJP-backed panel’s election marketing campaign, his panel got here on prime in a number of of the massive village panchayats within the area.
Maharashtra BJP president Chandrakant Patil additionally tasted defeat in his personal village, when a panel backed by the Shiv Sena scored an upset win over the Patil-backed panel, profitable six out of the 9 seats within the Khanapur Gram Panchayat. Incidentally, 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 cost.
Shiv Sena MLA Prakash Abitkar, who oversaw the marketing campaign within the high-profile village ballot, stated, “People of Khanapur are mature and know which party can serve them well.”
Patil, when contacted by mediapersons, tried to distance himself from the defeat. While asserting that the BJP-backed panel had misplaced by a small margin, he stated, “As the state BJP chief, the entire state was my area of operation, not just Khanapur.” The BJP had not too long ago additionally tasted defeat within the Pune Graduates’ constituency polls for the Legislative Council, which had elected Patil on a number of events previously.
Former Maharashtra BJP chief and present Union Minister Raosaheb Danve was equally 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 nicely. Danve’s son Santosh is the MLA from Bhokardan.
In reality, Danve was handled a double whammy, when his daughter Sanjana Jadhav misplaced her personal election from the Pishor village in Aurangabad. Backed by Danve, Sanjana had put up a panel in opposition to her personal estranged husband, Harshvardhan Jadhav, a former MLA, within the native village panel. While Harshavardhan is in jail over an assault case, Aditya, the couple’s son, had run his father’s election marketing campaign in opposition to his personal mom. But the villagers rejected each, electing a panel backed by the ruling MahaVikas Aghadi on a lot of the seats.
In the limelight over allegations of sexual impropriety, Maharashtra’s Social Justice Minister and NCP chief Dhananjay Munde scored one other win over his cousin, BJP’s former minister Pankaja Munde, profitable 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 social gathering, BJP, profitable six out of 11 seats in his native Kothali gram panchayat in Jalgaon’s Muktainagar. A Sena-backed panel gained the remaining 5 seats. “The victory symbolises the villagers’ faith in Khadse,” stated his daughter Rohini.
In Ahmednagar, former minister and BJP heavyweight Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil suffered a setback in his native village of Loni. A panel backed by the Maha Vikas Aghadi gained 13 out of the 17 seats within the village, unseating the Vikhe-Patil’s group for the primary time in 20 years.
But Narayan Rane, one other BJP heavyweight and a former CM, confirmed that he continues to get pleasure from 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 former minister Deepak Kesarkar, the Shiv Sena-backed panels gained simply 23 village panchayats, whereas the NCP gained just one.

Several sitting ministers, together with former CM Ashok Chavan, Balasaheb Patil and Shambhuraj Desai, managed to retain their maintain 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. In the Karjat-Jamkhed constituency, MLA Rohit Pawar dealt his rival and former BJP minister Ram Shinde one other blow, with the previous’s panel prepared seven out of 9 seats in Shinde’s Chondi village.
In the Ballarpur Assembly seats, sitting MLA and former minister Sudhir Mungantiwar suffered a blow, with the Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi profitable 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 adopted by him. A panel backed by his cousin Shivendraraje, a a BJP MLA, gained the village election.