Within days of it completing its first year in office, the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) consolidated its position in Maharashtra on Friday, as it handed out a humiliating drubbing to the Opposition BJP by winning four out five Maharashtra Legislative Council seats in the biennial elections.
The BJP, which lost to power to the Shiv Sena-led MVA Government in November last year, found itself licking its wounds, as it lost its traditional bastion of Nagpur where the Congress’ Abhijit Wanjari defeated the BJP’s Sandeep Joshi in the Nagpur Division Graduates’ constituency, by a comfortable margin of 18,910 votes.