Mahayuti wins two Maharashtra council seats; NCP fails to open account

Maharashtra's ruling Mahayuti won two of five teachers' and graduates' Legislative Council seats, with the BJP taking Pune Teachers' and the Shiv Sena winning Amravati Teachers'. Counting continued on the remaining three seats. The ruling NCP failed to open its account, prompting senior leader Praful Patel to call the results a wake-up call and urge urgent introspection.