After the declaration of results in October, there had been many ups & downs in the politics of Maharashtra. The recently concluded election was a close one with numerous big leaders failing to secure their respective seats. Amid the recent post-poll developments, there has been the rise of a new youth leader in Marathwada: “Dhiraj Vilasrao Deshmukh”. Dhiraj won with a whopping margin of 121482 votes from ‘Latur rural’ constituency. This is by far the biggest margin for a debutant. One can ascertain the popularity of Dhiraj in his constituency by the fact that the second position was taken by NOTA in the election results. 199601 was the total number of voters who turned out to exercise their right to vote, out of which Dhiraj secured 135006 votes, which constitutes 67.63 % 0f total votes. Interestingly, NOTA got 13.77 % of total votes in the constituency which is the second highest. Shiv Sena’s candidate, Sachin; Maharastra Navnirman Sena’s Arjun Waghmare and the ot...
Effect of NOTA and Independent leaders on the loss of BJP- First time after 2014 the main opponent party of country Indian National Congress has a significant win in the heartland of BJP. They have struck very hard to the core voters of the BJP. BJP has lost significantly in Chattisgarh while Madhya Pradesh and Chattisgarh witness a tense fight between the two leading parties of the country BJP and INC. While there might be different reasons behind the loss of BJP we have figured out few important statistics for you. In Chattisgarh BJP’s vote share is 33% with congress getting 42.9% of vote share. Interestingly the percentage of NOTA is 2.2% while the Independent candidates got 6.2% of vote share. In Madhya Pradesh the fight is coming out to be the toughest as both the largest party in the state sharing almost equal amount of vote share. Interestingly the NOTA played a important role with a vote share of 1.5%. The independent candidates got 5.9 % of vote s...