MUMBAI: After the defeat of Shiv Sena candidate Sanjay Pawar in the Maharashtra Rajya Sabha elections for the sixth seat following counting of votes in the early hours of Saturday, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut said that the BJP had won the third seat but this was not a victory.
He said that Sanjay Pawar had got 33 first preference votes, adding that the BJP got one Shiv Sena vote to be made invalid by using the Election Commission of India (ECI).