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Mumbai: The NOTA option has taken the second position in two Maharashtra Assembly segments which reflected voters’ disenchantment.
Latur Rural Assembly segment in central Maharashtra is one of them from where late Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh’s son Dhiraj registered a handsome victory in his maiden poll outing.
Dhiraj, the Congress candidate, secured 1,35,006 votes (67.64 per cent), but NOTA clinched 27,500 votes (13.78 per cent) to secure the second slot.
The NOTA also ended up as the runner-up in the Palus Kadegaon assembly seat in Sangli district. In this seat in western Maharashtra, Vishwajeet Kadam of the Congress bagged 1,71,497 votes to emerge the winner, while at number two was NOTA, which received 20,631 votes.
Prasanta Patnaik