{"id":301145,"date":"2018-08-03T18:34:44","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T18:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=301145"},"modified":"2019-06-19T06:26:35","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T06:26:35","slug":"bjp-wins-civic-body-polls-in-maharashtras-sangli-jalgaon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bjp-wins-civic-body-polls-in-maharashtras-sangli-jalgaon\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP wins civic body polls in Maharashtra&#8217;s Sangli, Jalgaon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The BJP on August 3 wins Sangli and Jalgaon civic body polls in Maharashtra. The BJP won 57 of the 75 seats in Jalgaon and 41 out of 78 seats in Sangli.<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The BJP has won a decisive victory with the highest number of seats for a single party in Sangli region dominated by Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) of Sharad Pawar and Jalgaon dominated by ally Shiv Sena.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Chief Minister Devendra Gangadharrao Fadnavis reportedly said, &#8220;This shows the faith people have on us. I am thankful to the people of Jalgaon and Sangli who had voted for the BJP. We will continue to work for the welfare of the people of Maharashtra.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The victory in civic polls is a boost for BJP in 2019 elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><b>Updates:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Shiv Sena leader Suresh Jain&#8217;s Khandesh Vikas Agadhi, which ruled the JMC for several years, won only 13 seats<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In Sangli Congress won 20 seats while the NCP got 15<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Congress in Jalgaon failed to win a single seat for the second consecutive time<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) won three seats, while Independents won two seats<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The BJP won on its own in Jalgaon municipal corporation for the first time in 36 years<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BJP on August 3 wins Sangli and Jalgaon civic body polls in Maharashtra. The BJP won 57 of the 75 seats in Jalgaon and 41 out of 78 seats in Sangli. The BJP has won a decisive victory with the highest number of seats for a single party in Sangli region dominated by Nationalist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":299497,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2100,2014,2026],"tags":[453,4013,1467,4014],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301146,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301145\/revisions\/301146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}