Maharashtra Rajya Sabha election 2022 Result Devendra Fadnavis vote for Shiv Sena if Sanjay Raut

Maharashtra Rajya Sabha election 2022 Result: After the results of the Rajya Sabha elections of Maharashtra, the war of words between BJP and Shiv Sena continues. Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut is continuously attacking the BJP. Now he has targeted former Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis. He said that Devendra Fadnavis will also vote for Shiv Sena if the command of the Enforcement Directorate is given to the Maharashtra government for two days.

Devendra Fadnavis will vote for Shiv Sena!

Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Sunday (June 12) took a jibe at the BJP after facing the defeat of his party's candidate Sanjay Pawar from the sixth seat in the Maharashtra Rajya Sabha elections. He said that saffron party leader Devendra Fadnavis will also vote for Shiv Sena. If the control of Enforcement Directorate (ED) is given to Uddhav Thackeray's leadership party. Raut said that if we are given control of ED for two days, then Devendra Fadnavis will also vote for us. The statement of the chief spokesperson of Shiv Sena comes after the BJP won three out of six seats in the 2022 Maharashtra Rajya Sabha elections.

Dhananjay Mahadik defeated Sanjay Pawar of Shiv Sena.

Fadnavis, former Maharashtra chief minister and leader of opposition in the state assembly, has been credited for the BJP's victory in the sixth Rajya Sabha seat, in which BJP's candidate Dhananjay Mahadik defeated Shiv Sena's Sanjay Pawar. Ahead of the Maharashtra Rajya Sabha elections, Raut had alleged that the BJP was using central agencies to pressure independents and smaller parties to vote for saffron party candidates. It was independents and smaller parties, some of whom had vowed to support the Shiv Sena, that played a key role in the BJP's victory.

These leaders got victory

In the Maharashtra Rajya Sabha election 2022, Union Minister Piyush Goyal, former state minister Anil Bonde and BJP's Dhananjay Mahadik won, while one each from Shiv Sena, Congress and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) - Sanjay Raut, Imran Pratapgarhi And Praful Patel won an easy victory. On Friday, 285 votes were cast and candidates needed 41 votes to win the Rajya Sabha seat.

'Purchasing Mandate'

Raut had on Saturday termed the BJP's victory in three Rajya Sabha seats in the state as a "mandate of horse-trading". Further, he had also accused the Election Commission (EC) of favoring the BJP, saying the saffron party had "pressurised" the election panel. Raut had said that some horses were ready for sale at a higher price and our candidate switched sides despite assurances of his vote.