The BJP suffered losses in key polls in Maharashtra, where it lost power last year. Of the six seats of the Maharashtra Legislative Council where polling was held earlier this week, the BJP could win only one. The ruling Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress coalition won four seats and an independent member took the remaining seat.
The Shiv Sena did not win a single seat even though its alliance partners bagged four. The Sena's lone candidate lost in Amravati, where an independent candidate won.
The BJP only won by-polls to the Dhule-Nandurbar local body seat, the results for which were declared earlier.
The BJP appears to have lost out in its perceived strongholds, the graduate constituencies.
Its biggest loss is the Nagpur seat, a party stronghold that was represented in the past by Union Minister Nitin Gadkari and former Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis's father Gangadhar Rao Fadnavis. Mr Gadkari, who first won the constituency in 1989, scored four more victories from there before contesting the 2014 Lok Sabha election that brought the BJP to power at the centre. The Congress has won the Nagpur seat for the first time in 55 years.
BJP leaders, including Mr Fadnavis and Maharashtra BJP chief Chandrakant Patil, also campaigned extensively in Pune, where two seats held by the BJP went to the ruling coalition. The Congress and the NCP won a seat each.
"The results of Maharashtra Legislative Council polls are not as per our expectations. We were expecting more seats but won only one. We miscalculated the combined power of the three parties (Maha Vikas Aghadi)," Mr Fadnavis told reporters.
The NCP or Nationalist Congress Party of Sharad Pawar held on to the Aurangabad constituency.
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The BJP suffered losses in key polls in Maharashtra, where it lost power last year. Of the six seats of the Maharashtra Legislative Council where polling was held earlier this week, the BJP could win only one. The ruling Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress coalition won four seats and an independent member took the remaining seat. The Shiv Sena did not win a single seat even though its alliance partners bagged four. The Sena's lone candidate lost in Amravati, where an independent candidate won. The BJP only won by-polls to the Dhule-Nandurbar local body seat, the results for which were declared earlier. The BJP appears to have lost out in its perceived strongholds, the graduate constituencies. Its biggest loss is the Nagpur seat, a party stronghold that was represented in the past by Union Minister Nitin Gadkari and former Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis's father Gangadhar Rao Fadnavis. Mr Gadkari, who first won the constituency in 1989, scored four more victories from there before contesting the 2014 Lok Sabha election that brought the BJP to power at the centre. The Congress has won the Nagpur seat for the first time in 55 years. BJP leaders, including Mr Fadnavis and Maharashtra BJP chief Chandrakant Patil, also campaigned extensively in Pune, where two seats held by the BJP went to the ruling coalition. The Congress and the NCP won a seat each. "The results of Maharashtra Legislative Council polls are not as per our expectations. We were expecting more seats but won only one. We miscalculated the combined power of the three parties (Maha Vikas Aghadi)," Mr Fadnavis told reporters. The NCP or Nationalist Congress Party of Sharad Pawar held on to the Aurangabad constituency.