The BJP on Friday demanded that Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde take strict disciplinary action against Shiv Sena leaders who, it said, worked against Mahayuti candidates in the legislative council elections. The demand comes amid strained relations within the ruling alliance after the MLC Election Results 2026.

The ruling alliance lost three of the five legislative council seats in the MLC Election 2026. The Congress won Nagpur Graduates ’, the BJP’s home turf, by 3,271 votes. The NCP (SP) took both the Pune and Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar Graduates’ seats, beating the BJP in Pune and the NCP in Sambhajinagar. The Mahayuti won only the two teachers’ seats: Pune went to the BJP and Amravati to the Shiv Sena.

The BJP blamed the Shiv Sena for its defeat in the Pune Graduates constituency.

“In Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar Graduates’, Shiv Sena former minister Abdul Sattar worked against NCP candidate Satish Chavan, who lost.…