Shiv Sena-BJP win Palghar civic polls

MUMBAI: The Shiv Sena-BJP alliance has won the Palghar Municipal Council polls held on Sunday.

The counting held on Monday saw the Sena winning 14 of the 19 seats they contested. The BJP won seven of the nine seats. The total number of seats were 28. Two seat had been won unopposed. Independents (Sena rebels) got five seats, while the NCP got two seat. The Sunday polling saw a 67.99 % voting.


The president council post went to the NCP candidate Dr Ujjwala Kale. She defeated Shiv Sena candidate Dr Shweta Patil who had defected from the NCP.

The earlier council was held by the Sena. Keeping the forthcoming

Lok Sabha

elections in mind, the alliance was formed. The BJP has already decided to leave the Palghar Lok Sabha seat for the Shiv Sena, despite the party having a sitting MP in Rajendra Gavit. Both chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and Sena youth leader Aaditya Thackeray had campaigned for the civic polls.

BJP workers in

Palghar district

were unhappy with the party's decision to give the Lok Sabha seat to Shiv Sena. Expressing their agitation many workers had resigned. Following the civic poll results, the BJP workers pointed out that the party had a better average that the Shiv Sena. BJP lost on two seats while the Sena was defeated in five seats.

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