Following the drubbing in the last year’s Vidhan Sabha elections, all three constituent parties of the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance have also suffered humiliating defeat in the municipal council and nagar panchayat elections in Maharashtra.
The opposition have blamed EVMs for their humiliating defeat in the local body elections.
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majority of the municipal councils in the state, the Mahayuti parties – BJP, Shiv Sena (Shinde) and NCP (Ajit Pawar) – have succeeded, whereas Vidarbha has again given a helping hand to the Congress.
Compared to these parties, the Shiv Sena UBT and the NCP (SP) in the MVA alliance did not conduct these elections with much prestige. Both parties have fallen behind considerably.