‘Bypoll result shows discontent over BJP’

The by-election results were a lesson to the opposition parties. It gave out a message that ‘united we win, divided we fall’. Uddhav Thackeray will have to rethink on his alliance with Prakash Ambedkar (head of the Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi), who openly supported Rahul Kalate, the independent candidate in Chinchwad when Thackeray was persuading Kalate to withdraw from the race.” editorial claimed the Maha Vikas Aghadi had breached a BJP bastion.

First India Bureau Mumbai : Launching an attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) after the latter lost the Kasba Peth Assembly to the consensus MVA candidate, the official mouthpiece of Shiv Sena -Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray, Saamana, on Friday claimed the bypoll result goes to show the deep-seated public discontent against the BJP in Maharashtra and across the country.

Congress, NCP and Shiv Sena - Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray, to stay united.

The result is people’s verdict on local and state issues. There is nothing more to read into it, he said.

“BJP leader Girish Bapat won five times from Kasba because of his connect with the masses and not due to his caste and there was no leader in the Congress to counter him,” Mahajan said.

On the Chinchwad seat, the Congress leader said this constituency is a mix of outsider and local population because it is an industrial area.

Mahajan said sympathy factor worked for Ashwini Jagtap in Chinchwad, but it did not work in Kasba even as sitting Pune MP Girish Bapat, who is critically ill, had to step out to campaign for his party and for casting his vote.

In an editorial published on Friday, the mouthpiece said, “The result of Kasba Peth (Assembly bypoll) shows the deep-seated public discontent against the BJP in Maharashtra and in India as well. The voters are aware of all that is happening around them and hence voted against the BJP. The bypoll result in Kasba is being celebrated across Pune. This celebration will continue till 2024, not just in Maharashtra but across the country as well.”

Further, on the victory in Kasba Peth, the