4 City Presidents Suffer Crushing Defeat in Pune Civic Polls

• BJP secured a landslide victory in the Pune Municipal Corporation elections, winning 120 out of 165 seats.
• City presidents of four major political parties, including Thackeray faction, MNS, Ajit Pawar faction, and Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena, faced defeat.
• Only BJP city president Dheeraj Ghate and Congress city president Arvind Shinde managed to win their respective wards.
• Ajit Pawar's party came second with 29 seats, while Congress secured 15 seats.
• Thackeray faction won only one seat, and MNS and Shinde faction failed to win any seats.

Why It Matters: Four out of six city presidents of major parties lost in Pune civic polls despite BJP's dominant win.