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Published 12:26 IST, October 26th 2019

Maharashtra: Amul applauds Aaditya Thackeray for winning the election

Dairy giant Amul on Friday congratulated the Yuva Sena Chief Aaditya Thackeray on his victory in the Worli constituency in the Maharashtra Assembly election

Reported by: Varsha Chavan
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Dairy giant Amul on Friday congratulated the Yuva Sena Chief Aaditya Thackeray on his victory from the Worli constituency in the Maharashtra Assembly election. Taking to Twitter, Amul shared a doodle of the company's advertising mascot representing Aaditya Thackeray. The doodle is captioned as 'Local flavourite!'. Here is the post shared by Amul:

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Aaditya Thackeray wins the election

Aaditya Thackeray won against the Nationalist Congress Party’s Suresh Mane by a huge margin of 67,427 votes. He became the first member of the Thackeray family to be formally elected in any legislature. Aaditya Thackeray was then handed over his winning certificate from the Returning Officer of the Worli constituency. 

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Following Aaditya's victory, posters congratulating the young leader were put up across the state by Shiv Sena. 

Posters of Shiv Sena leader and Yuva Sena president Aaditya Thackeray congratulating him as 'Future CM' for winning the Maharashtra assembly elections with a large mandate were also put up in Worli. The poster says, "Hearty congratulations to Yuva Sena Chief and future chief minister Aaditya Thackeray for winning the assembly polls with a huge mandate."

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The Worli constituency

In the 2014 Assembly elections, the Shiv Sena (SS), BJP, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), as well as Congress, fought the election separately. Worli saw an engrossing battle, with a strong incumbent Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) Sachin Ahir getting trounced by the SS candidate Sunil Shinde. The latter got nearly 23,000 more votes than Ahir. The BJP's Sunil Rane came third. Some months ago, NCP leader Ahir joined the SS thereby paving the way for a comfortable victory for Aaditya Thackeray.

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Updated 13:28 IST, October 26th 2019

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