MUMBAI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has jolted the ruling three-party Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance consisting of Shiv Sena, Nationalist Congress Party and Congress in Maharashtra as it won four of the six legislative council seats in the state voting for which was held on December 10.

More embarrassing for MVA was that the BJP managed to wrest the Akola-Buldhana-Washim seat from Shiv Sena. Sena's three-time MLC Gopikishan Bajoria was defeated by the BJP's Vasant Khandelwal. Khandelwal bagged 443 votes while Bajoria secured 334 of the 808 votes.

BJP also won the Nagpur with Congress candidate Ravindra Chottu Bhoyar withdrawing his candidature, while in Nandurbar-Dhule and Kolhapur MLC polls while the BJP and Congress secured one seat each unopposed.

BJP leader and Leader of Opposition in the state assembly Devendra Fadnavis said that the BJP has busted the MVA's myth that the three parties can win every election in the state by contesting together.

While Maharashtra BJP president Chandrakant Patil has said that despite the Congress's childish games during the election of the Nagpur MLC seat by poaching BJP's corporator Ravindra Bhoyar and offering him a ticket they won.