Mahayuti breaches majority mark in Maharashtra elections, netizens share funny memes: ‘Resort owners watching…’

In the Maharashtra assembly elections, the ruling Mahayuti alliance, led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), is leading with 213 seats, while the Congress-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) is leading with 59 assembly seats. As the election results started pouring in on Saturday, netizens began sharing hilarious memes and jokes on social media.

According to the Election Commission of India data at 2 pm, the BJP was leading in 123 seats in Maharashtra, while its ally, the Shiv Sena, was ahead in 55 seats and the Nationalist Congress Party in 36 seats.

The BJP has already won three seats —Ghatkopar East, Wadala, and Satara—where Parag Shah, Kalidas Nilkanth Kolambkar, and Shivendraraje Bhonsale were the candidates. Shiv Sena's Gavit Dhedya and Shantaram More have won the Palghar and Bhiwandi Rural assembly seats. NCP's Bankar Shankarrao and Aditi Tatkare have won from the Niphad and Shrivardhan seats, respectively.

On the contrary, NCP-SP candidate Abhijeet Patil is the lone candidate from the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi to have won a seat, as the vote counting is progressing.

As it is clear that the ruling Mahayuti alliance will get a clear majority to govern Maharashtra, the netizens have started trolling the MVA.

Here are a few funny reactions:

A social media user commented, “Biggest disappointment group today coz of the #MaharashtraElectionResults are the resort owners in GOA, Telengana, Karnataka. I am sure many would have hoped for a hung assembly.”

Another wrote, “Time to say GOODBYE to Uddhav Thackeray.”

Under the Mahayuti alliance, the BJP contested 148 seats, Shiv Sena on 80 seats, and the Ajit Pawar-led NCP on 53 seats. The rest of the seats went to smaller alliance partners.

Under the MVA, the Congress has fielded 103 candidates, Shiv Sena (UBT) 89, and NCP (SP) has put up 87 candidates. The remaining seats were allocated to smaller parties.

The assembly elections in Maharashtra took place in a single phase on November 20.