Yamini Jadhav is once again facing an electoral defeat in the Byculla Assembly elections | India News – Times of India

Mumbai: Byculla has handed defeat to the Shiv Sena candidate Yamini Jadhav for the second time this year. Nearly six months after he was defeated in the Lok Sabha polls, Jadhav lost the Assembly elections Manoj Jamsutkar of Shiv Sena (UBT) with 31,361 votes on Saturday.
Jadhav had contested the LS election from Mumbai South against Arvind Sawant of Sena (UBT). Sawant had collected 86,883 votes from Byculla against Jadhav’s 40,817 votes. Jadhav had claimed that the trend in the LS polls, when the Muslim votes (around 40%) had consolidated behind the MVA candidate, would change in the Assembly elections.
In 2019, Jadhav got 51,180 votes in the Byculla assembly polls and won by 20,023 votes. But AIMIM’s Waris Yusuf Pathan, with 31,157 votes, made her victory easy.
In these elections, Pathan contested from Bhiwandi West, while AIMIM fielded Faiyyaz Ahmed from Byculla. Ahmed received 5,531 votes.
Jadhav may have hoped that Samajwadi Party’s Saeed Khan would be able to split some Muslim votes, but that did not happen. “After Saeed stopped campaigning in Byculla, Muslims aggressively consolidated behind Jamsutkar, giving him a good lead,” said former Congress MP Yusuf Abrahani. The consolidation of a section of Marathi votes and substantial Muslim votes helped Jamsutkar win this seat comfortably.
For Jamsutkar, a former corporator who had switched to Sena (UBT) from Congress, this victory is huge.