The recent municipal panchayat polls in Maharashtra have shown the signs of the Congress staging a comeback in the Vidarbha region — it has marched ahead of the BJP in majority of the districts.
According to the final data from the State Election Commission, the Congress won 202 seats in the polls compared to 152 of the BJP. The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the Shiv Sena remained on number three and four spot by winning 89 and 60 seats respectively. The Congress has claimed victory in 17 municipal panchayats in Vidarbha in comparison to seven of the BJP.
