By Ria Jain
Pune | Jan 16, 2026
Ahead of the PMC election results, Higher and Technical Education Minister Chandrakant Patil states, “People are seeing what we have done, not relying on election speeches…. People are trusting us based on our past work. We raised this question in people’s minds: If they (Shiv Sena UBT) wanted to do development work, why didn’t they do it earlier? We did a lot of work even during the two and half years of COVID-19….” He further adds, “Whether the Thackeray brothers come together or Congress and NCP join hands, it is not in the interest of the people. People have understood that this is for their own selfish motives. In Mumbai, BJP will get 90 seats and Shiv Sena 40; this number may increase but will not decrease. In Pune, we will not get less than 115 seats….”
