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Local polls: Congress surges ahead in Nagpur, grabs 10 seats

| @indiablooms | Jan 08, 2020, at 03:42 pm

Nagpur/UNI:  The Congress has shown good performance in Zilla Parishad (ZP) and Panchayat Samiti (PS) election in the district by winning 10 seats so far.

Of 54 seats in Nagpur Zilla Parishad, Congress has so far won 10 seats , NCP 4 and BJP managed to get 5 seats.

Maharashtra Home Minister and NCP senior leader Anil Deshmukh's son Salil Deshmukh won from Mendpanjra seat in Nagpur.

Besides, a Congress candidate won from Koradi in Nagpur which is home town of ex-minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule.

A BJP candidate lost to Congress candidate in Dhapewada seat in Nagpur which is native place of Nitin Gadkari.

Polling for 54 Zilla Parishad (ZP) and 116 seats of 13 Panchayat Samiti(PS) in Nagpur district was held on Tuesday with alliance of Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress against the BJP.

The election for ZP and PS witnessed around 67 percent polling on Tuesday.

The counting of votes and declaration of results are underway on Wednesday 

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