BJP's Chandrashekhar Bawankule Wins Nagpur MLC Seat: Maharashtra
The BJP MLC candidate Chandrashekhar Bawankule won the state legislative council election from Nagpur. He defeated Mangesh Deshmukh, a Congress-backed independent candidate on December 14. In the first round of votes counting, Bawankule got 362 votes while Deshmukh received 186 votes. Meanwhile, Dr. Ravindra Bhoyar got one vote. Besides, the BJP and Shiv Sena bagged one seat each in Mumbai. As many as 549 votes were declared valid.