Mumbai. The exit poll of Marathi television channel Lokshahi has predicted a big defeat of the ruling Mahayuti alliance in Maharashtra and a huge victory of the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi-India Block in the Lok Sabha elections. In its exit poll, the channel has given 21 seats to the Mahayuti alliance of Shiv Sena-BJP-NCP and 26 seats to the Maha Vikas Aghadi-India Block of Congress-Shiv Sena (UBT)-NCP (Sharad Pawar) in the 48 Lok Sabha constituencies of the state. One seat has been shown to go to an independent.
Big winners include Shiv Sena’s Shrikant E. Shinde (Kalyan), son of Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, NCP state president Sunil Tatkare (Raigad) and Deputy CM Ajit Pawar’s wife Sunetra Ajit Pawar (Baramati), SS-UBT’s Vinayak Raut (Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg), Arvind Sawant (Mumbai South), Congress’ Varsha Gaikwad (Mumbai North Central), Balwant Wankhade (Amravati) and Pratibha Dhanorkar (Chandrapur), NCP’s (SP)’s Shashikant Shinde (Satara), BJP’s Nitin Gadkari (Nagpur) and Pankaja Munde (Beed).
The major leaders who have been predicted to lose include NCP (SP) working president Supriya Sule (Baramati), BJP’s Chhatrapati Udayanraje Bhosale (Satara), Narayan Rane (Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg), Navneet Kaur-Rana (Amravati), Sudhir Mungantiwar (Chandrapur), VBA’s Prakash Ambedkar (Akola).
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In the regional exit polls, the ruling coalition appears to be facing a major setback.
6 seats in Mumbai: Mahayuti’s Shiv Sena (Mumbai South Central), BJP (Mumbai North), MVA’s SS-UBT (Mumbai South, Mumbai North West and Mumbai North East), and Congress (Mumbai North West) are shown winning.
6 seats in Konkan region: Mahayuti’s Shiv Sena (Kalyan and Thane), BJP (Bhiwandi and Palghar), NCP (Raigad), MVA’s SS-UBT (Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg) and Congress-NCP (SP) have been reported to have zero seats.
6 seats in North Maharashtra: Mahayuti’s BJP (Rawar, Jalgaon and Dhule), MVA’s Congress (Nandurbar), SS-UBT (Nashik), and NCP-SP (Dindori).
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10 seats in Vidarbha: Mahayuti’s BJP (Nagpur, Wardha and Akola), Shiv Sena (Ramtek, Buldhana), MVA’s Congress (Bhandara-Gondia, Gadchiroli, Chandrapur, Amravati), and SS-UBT (Yavatmal-Washim) are projected to win.
8 seats in Marathwada: Going to Mahayuti’s BJP (Beed, Latur), MVA’s Congress (Jalna, Nanded), SS-UBT (Aurangabad, Hingoli, Osmanabad, Parbhani).
12 seats of Western Maharashtra: Mahayuti’s Shiv Sena (Maval), BJP (Pune, Ahmednagar), NCP (Baramati), MVA’s Congress (Solapur, Kolhapur), SS-UBT (Shirdi, Hatkanangale), NCP-SP (Satara, Shirur, Madha) and Independent (Sangli) are said to be winning.
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FIRST PUBLISHED : June 1, 2024, 21:25 IST