State BJP secretary Vinod Tawade said the Shiv Sena and BJP would do a lot of "soul-searching". State BJP chief Nitin Gadkari said the party had to accept defeat and look ahead.
Both the leaders spoke to mediapersons separately as early trends showed that the Congress and its ally the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) were poised to retain power in Maharashtra.
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