MUMBAI, Oct. 28 -- Twenty-four hours after counting began for five Maharashtra legislative council seats for which polling was held on October 23, the ruling Mahayuti alliance on Wednesday morning is leading in three constituencies, and the opposition Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) is ahead in two.

Of the five seats that went to the polls, the BJP leads in the Pune teachers' and Nagpur graduates constituencies, while the Shiv Sena leads in the Amravati teachers constituency. The Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) leads in Pune graduates and Aurangabad graduates constituencies.

Counting, which started late on Tuesday, is still ongoing because the legislative council elections were conducted using paper ballots.

In Nagpur g...