After 58 years, Congress snatches BJP's crown on RSS turf

Mumbai, Dec. Dec 5 For the Congress, ally of the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi, it was double celebrations as the Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray-led government completed its one year in office one week ago.

Disproving all political predictions, after a gap of 58 years, the Congress's youth leader Abhijit Wanjarri, 47, bagged the prestigious Nagpur Division Graduates Constituency seat in the biennial elections, the results of which were declared on Friday.

The MVA partners - Shiv Sena-Nationalist Congress Party-Congress - spared no efforts in the polls and succeeded in defeating the Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party nominee and Nagpur Mayor Sandeep Joshi.

In the biennial polls held on Dec. 1 for 6 seats, the MVA bagged 4, the BJP one and an Independent one in the hotly contested elections.

However, the Nagpur Division victory outshines all others as the Congress grabbed the BJP's crown - bang on the home-turf of its ideological mentor, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh

( With inputs from IANS )