Vibha SharmaNew Delhi, Oct. 29 -- Though the BJP on Wednesday taunted the Congress for "drawing a blank" in the MLC polls, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself chipping in with a post on X, the grand old party eventually had the last laugh by winning the Nagpur seat in the elections across four states.
Congress's sitting MLC Abhijeet Wanjari defeated the BJP's Sudhakar Kohale to retain the Nagpur Division Graduates' constituency seat in a nail-biting contest that saw the lead change hands multiple times during more than 40 hours of counting. Though just one in number, the seat in Nagpur, the bastion of Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and union Minister Nitin Gadkari, and the headquarters of the RSS, provided sufficient ammunition to ...