Maharashtra Gram Panchayat Polls

Angered by his defeat in the recent gram panchayat polls, a 45-year-old man allegedly threatened residents of a village by brandishing a sword in Maharashtra's Akola district, police said on Saturday.

The ruling BJP and other parties on Tuesday separately claimed to have won maximum Gram Panchayats in Maharashtra in the maiden local body polls conducted after the alliance government led by Eknath Shinde came to power in June this year.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday claimed to have won a maximum of 397 seats in gram panchayat elections in Maharashtra.

Maharashtra's rival coalitions, the ruling Eknath Shinde-BJP alliance and the ousted Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) have both claimed victory in Gram Panchayat or rural body elections held two days ago.

BJP president Chandrashekhar Bawankule on Monday claimed 259 candidates supported by his party and 40 nominees backed by the Eknath Shinde faction of the Shiv Sena have been elected as sarpanches.

Nearly 3,000 workers of the RPI (A) have emerged victorious in the recently-held Gram Panchayat elections in Maharashtra, the party president and Union minister Ramdas Athawale said on Tuesday.

The NCP has won 3,276 gram panchayats, the highest by a party, across Maharashtra in the just-held polls of the rural governing bodies, its leader and state Minister Jayant Patil claimed on Tuesday.

Workers of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) have emerged victorious in 70 seats across 13 districts of Maharashtra in the recently-held Gram Panchayat polls, results of which were announced on Monday.

The Shiv Sena today said the people of Maharashtra have favoured the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government in the recently-held Gram Panchayat elections in the state, results of which were declared on Monday.

Maharashtra's ruling Shiv Sena is ahead of the BJP in the gram panchayat elections, counting of which is currently on. The rural polls were meant to be a litmus for the ruling Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi, the alliance of Sena, Congress and Sharad Pawar's Nationalist Congress Party.

The State Election Commission has cancelled polling in two Gram Panchayats in Nashik and Nandurbar districts of Maharashtra, after it received evidence of public auctioning of the posts of sarpanch and members of the local governing bodies, an official said on Wednesday.

The Congress claimed on Thursday that a panel supported by the party won the Gram Panchayat election in Union minister Nitin Gadkari's native village in Maharashtra's Nagpur.

In a setback to Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis in his adopted Fetri village in Nagpur, a woman candidate backed by Congress-NCP on Tuesday won the post of the village sarpanch in the gram panchayat election.

As many as 7,576 Gram Panchayats (GPs), spread over 34 districts in Maharashtra, will go to the polls in two phases on October 7 and 14.

Angered by his defeat in the recent gram panchayat polls, a 45-year-old man allegedly threatened residents of a village by brandishing a sword in Maharashtra's Akola district, police said on Saturday.

The ruling BJP and other parties on Tuesday separately claimed to have won maximum Gram Panchayats in Maharashtra in the maiden local body polls conducted after the alliance government led by Eknath Shinde came to power in June this year.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday claimed to have won a maximum of 397 seats in gram panchayat elections in Maharashtra.

Maharashtra's rival coalitions, the ruling Eknath Shinde-BJP alliance and the ousted Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) have both claimed victory in Gram Panchayat or rural body elections held two days ago.

BJP president Chandrashekhar Bawankule on Monday claimed 259 candidates supported by his party and 40 nominees backed by the Eknath Shinde faction of the Shiv Sena have been elected as sarpanches.

Nearly 3,000 workers of the RPI (A) have emerged victorious in the recently-held Gram Panchayat elections in Maharashtra, the party president and Union minister Ramdas Athawale said on Tuesday.

The NCP has won 3,276 gram panchayats, the highest by a party, across Maharashtra in the just-held polls of the rural governing bodies, its leader and state Minister Jayant Patil claimed on Tuesday.

Workers of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) have emerged victorious in 70 seats across 13 districts of Maharashtra in the recently-held Gram Panchayat polls, results of which were announced on Monday.

The Shiv Sena today said the people of Maharashtra have favoured the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government in the recently-held Gram Panchayat elections in the state, results of which were declared on Monday.

Maharashtra's ruling Shiv Sena is ahead of the BJP in the gram panchayat elections, counting of which is currently on. The rural polls were meant to be a litmus for the ruling Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi, the alliance of Sena, Congress and Sharad Pawar's Nationalist Congress Party.

The State Election Commission has cancelled polling in two Gram Panchayats in Nashik and Nandurbar districts of Maharashtra, after it received evidence of public auctioning of the posts of sarpanch and members of the local governing bodies, an official said on Wednesday.

The Congress claimed on Thursday that a panel supported by the party won the Gram Panchayat election in Union minister Nitin Gadkari's native village in Maharashtra's Nagpur.

In a setback to Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis in his adopted Fetri village in Nagpur, a woman candidate backed by Congress-NCP on Tuesday won the post of the village sarpanch in the gram panchayat election.

As many as 7,576 Gram Panchayats (GPs), spread over 34 districts in Maharashtra, will go to the polls in two phases on October 7 and 14.