Maharashtra: Ruling MVA wins 4 of 5 Council seats, BJP loses in Nagpur

The one-year-old Shiv Sena-NCP- Congress government in Maharashtra got a shot in the arm on Friday as the ruling coalition won four of the five Legislative Council seats from the Graduates' and Teachers' quota.

In a setback for the BJP, which lost power in the state after Assembly elections last year, its candidate also lost in Nagpur, a bastion of the saffron party.

The biennial elections to the upper house, held on December 1, were a sort of litmus test for the unlikely 'Maha Vikas Aghadi' (MVA) of the Shiv Sena and Congress-NCP which came to power after the Sena parted ways