Bypoll results lesson for both BJP and MVA: Pol observers

Cong snatches Kasba Peth seat from BJP as the latter bags Chinchwad in by-elections

Mumbai: The results of bypolls to two Assembly seats in Pune district will serve as a lesson to the ruling

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to get its act together and introspect, and to the Opposition

Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) to unite for better electoral prospects, feel political observers.

Two Assembly segments in Pune district

Kasba Peth and Chinchwad voted on February 26 in bypolls necessitated due to the death of sitting BJP MLAs Mukta Tilak and Laxman Jagtap, respectively.

In the results declared on Thursday, the Kasba bypoll was won by the Congress, a constituent of the MVA.

Congress candidate

Ravindra Dhangekar defeated BJP’s Hemant Rasane to win this seat, which had been with the BJP since 1995.

However, BJP candidate Ashwini Jagtap, wife of late MLA Laxman Jagtap, won the Chinchwad Assembly constituency. She defeated Vitthal alias

Nana Kate of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP).

Senior Congress lead- er Ratnakar Mahajan said the Kasba bypoll result inspires the MVA, which comprises the