BJP Will Bag More Than 42 Seats in Western Maharashtra: Murlidhar Mohol

Mumbai: Union minister and Pune MP Murlidhar Mohol said on Saturday that BJP would win more than 42 seats out of 58 in western Maharashtra region in upcoming assembly elections.

western Maharashtra, kwn as crle for cooperative movement, used to be a Congress bastion. However, birth of Nationalist Congress Party in 1999 altered political landscape of this sugar belt, with many satraps and sugar mills' owners throwing ir weight behind Shar Pawar .

"BJP represents 42 out of 58 assembly segments in western Maharashtra. We will win more than 42 seats in vember 20 elections," Mohol told reporters on sidelines of an event in Pune attended by EAM S Jaishankar.

Mohol said Maratha community was granted reservation when BJP was in power (under n CM Devendra Fnavis ' tenure).

"Shar Pawar who served as chief minister four times h failed to grant reservation to Maratha community," he claimed while ackwledging political significance of Maratha quota issue.