Call it an effect of demonetisation, but Congress seems to have bounced back in the third phase of the Maharashtra municipal polls. The party won eight council presidents and the maximum number of corporator seats in the third phase of the election. Congress left both the BJP and Shiv Sena behind in the third phase of the polls, whose results were declared on Monday.
A total of 409 seats were contested across 19 municipal councils and two nagar panchayats in four districts of Marathwada (Aurangabad and Nanded districts) and Vidharbha (Bhandara and Gadchiroli), of which Congress took the top position with 122 corporator seats and eight council president wins, followed by BJP with eight council president wins and 116 corporator seats, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) with 77 corporator seats and Shiv Sena with 46 corporator seats. The other seats were won by local parties and Independents.
