Sharad Pawar attributes Maha defeat to propaganda that Ladki Bahin Yojana will be stopped by MVA
"It is a highly unexpected result but we have no option but to accept it and move forward," he added.
"It is a highly unexpected result but we have no option but to accept it and move forward," he added.
The BJP-Shiv Sena-Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Mahayuti alliance retained power in Maharashtra by sweeping the Assembly elections.
NCP-SP Maharashtra state president Jayant Patil and Congress leader Balasaheb Thorat have already begun contacting many independent candidates, just in case the MVA falls short of a majority.
Party's Maharashtra in-charge, Ramesh Chennithala, has demanded the immediate arrest of BJP National General Secretary Vinod Tawde, who was allegedly caught red-handed distributing money to voters in Vasai Virar.
Tawde denied the accusations, stating, “I had stopped on my way to discuss the polling process and code of conduct with our candidate.”
There is a direct fight in Maharashtra between the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) and Mahayuti.
Sule, a prominent opposition leader, was reportedly traveling to address election rallies in the area when the officials checked her belongings.
Speaking to reporters in Pune, Telangana CM Revanth Reddy said Modi’s week-long international tour is evidence of the BJP leaving the electoral battlefield.
He accused Congress of inheriting the "DNA of the British" and having a history of betraying India.
She pointed out that her brother Rahul Gandhi undertook the Bharat Jodo Yatra to advocate caste census.
