Nationalist Congress Occasion (NCP) chief Zeeshan Siddique, the son of late politician Baba Siddique, is trailing from Vandre East in Mumbai as votes are being counted for the Maharashtra meeting elections. Uddhav Thackeray’s nephew Varun Sardesai of the Shiv Sena (UBT) has prolonged his margin to 2,260 votes after the second spherical of counting. Mr Sardesai has received 5,763 votes to this point and Mr Siddique 3,503 votes. Giving fierce competitors to the duo is Truptti Bala Sawant (3,017 votes) of Raj Thackeray’s MNS.
Zeeshan Siddique had joined the Ajit Pawar-led faction final month, following his father’s footsteps. Days after Baba Siddique was shot useless by the infamous Lawrence Bishnoi gang, he had accused the Maha Vikas Aghadi of deserting him and his father.
Mr Siddique, who had received Vandre East in 2019 as a Congress member, was expelled by the occasion earlier this yr amid allegations over crossvoting in the course of the legislative council elections.
Votes are additionally being counted for the meeting elections in Jharkhand in addition to for bypolls to 48 meeting seats and two parliamentary constituencies in 15 totally different states. All outcomes will likely be declared immediately.