KOLHAPUR: Congress candidate Jayashri Jadhav backed by the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) gained Kolhapur North meeting bypoll, the counting of which was concluded on Saturday.
Jadhav has change into the primary lady MLA of Kolhapur.
The meeting seat was vacated following the demise of Jadhav's husband and Congress MLA Chandrakant Jadhav.
The Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP) fielded corporator Satyajeet Kadam towards Jadhav.
Jadhav on the finish of the twenty fifth spherical was main by 19,000 votes whereas only one spherical was remaining to be counted. Jadhav obtained 96,226 votes whereas Kadam bagged 77,426 votes.
The BJP was eyeing its first win for the Kolhapur North meeting bypoll. It targeted on Hindutva to draw voters of the Shiv Sena.
Sena chief and two-time MLA Rajesh Kshirsagar was sad after Uddhav Thackeray took the choice to depart the seat to Congress to contest.
The BJP invoked Hindutva to get the disgruntled voters on its facet. Nonetheless, as a consequence of a digital speech by Thackeray the place he stated within the 2019 meeting election Sena misplaced its bastion due to the BJP and this time Sena staff will repay it by defeating the BJP.
Satej Patil, Kolhapur's guardian minister and MoS for dwelling spearheaded the marketing campaign for Jadhav.
He was focused by BJP leaders within the election marketing campaign. Nonetheless, to the dismay of BJP leaders, Jadhav obtained big margin of votes from Satej Patil's stronghold areas.
As many as 1,78,542 voters had solid their votes.