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Congress, BJP bag 2 seats each in local bodies poll

The Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party has won two seats each in the election to eight local bodies constituencies on the Maharashtra legislative council.

The results of the poll, conducted on Monday, are still filtering in. The Shiv Sena and Samajwadi Party have bagged a seat each.

In the Kolhapur local bodies constituency, independent candidate Mahadevrao Mahadik defeated rival Vijaysingh Yadav (Congress) by 93 votes. Mahadik was backed by the Shiv Sena as it had not fielded any candidate from that constituency. He polled 222 votes against the 129 of the Congress.

Education Minister Sudhir Joshi and Hussain Dalwai of the Samajwadi Party were elected from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation constituencies in Bombay. Joshi secured 80 votes, while Dalwai polled 77 votes.

In Solapur, the BJP's Sureshchandra Deshmukh defeated Congressman Yunus Jainuddin Sheikh by 30 votes. Deshmukh polled 196 votes while Sheikh polled 166 votes.

In Dhule, Raghuvanshi Batesingh (Congress) defeated independent candidate Bhagwan Rambhau Karankal by a margin of 45 votes. Batesingh polled 210 votes against Karankal's 165.

Yeshwant Gadhak (Congress) won from the Ahmednagar local bodies constituency defeating his independent rival Pandurang Dhokne by a margin of 123 votes. Gadhak polled 220 votes against Dhokne's 97 votes.

The BJP's Balwantrao Dhoble won from the Nagpur local bodies constituency defeating his rival Ramesh Gupta (Congress) by a margin of 170 votes. Dhoble polled 260 votes against the 90 votes which Gupta managed.

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