PM Narendra Modi on Saturday celebrated BJP's spectacular win in Maharashtra as a triumph of his platform of unity, development and over INDIA bloc's politics of "divisiveness, negativity and deceit",

Abu Asim Azmi of the Samajwadi Party (SP) polled 54,780 votes to win the Mankhurd-Shivaji Nagar seat by a margin of 12,753 votes against his nearest rival, Ateeque Ahmad Khan of the AIMIM.

"Development won, negative politics lost," says PM Modi on NDA's landslide victory in Maharashtra

The BJP is contesting 149 seats, Shiv Sena 81 seats, and the Ajit Pawar-led NCP has fielded candidates in 59 constituencies. In the opposition alliance, the Congress has fielded 101 candidates, Shiv Sena (UBT) 95,

The BJP is on cloud nine. The saffron party seems poised to win 130 seats on its own, with its allies taking its alliance’s tally well above the majority mark. Devendra Fadnavis, who is seen as a frontrunner for the Maharashtra chief minister post,

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party is headed for a victory in state elections in politically significant Maharashtra while the opposition won mineral-rich Jharkhand state

Winning Jharkhand would have been an icing on the cake for the BJP and it will regret not getting Ranchi, but Maharashtra is the real cake