The results of Maharashtra are unexpected, said Rahul Gandhi on Saturday after Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA)'s's flop show in Maharashtra Assembly elections. The Mahayuti alliance has swept the polls, securing over 200 seats, while the MVA failed to reach the 50-seat mark.The results of Maharashtra are unexpected and we will analyse them in detail, said the Congress MP.Reacting to Jharkhand elections, where the INDIA bloc won by a comfortable margin, Gandhi said, "Heartfelt thanks to the people of Jharkhand for giving a huge mandate to India. Hearty congratulations and best wishes to Chief Minister Hemant Soren ji, all the workers of Congress and JMM for this victory."This victory of the alliance in the state is a victory of the protection of water, forest and land along with the Constitution, he added.He also thanked all the "voter brothers and sisters of the state for their support and to all the workers for their hard work."The Congress continued its losing spree posting its worst-ever show in Maharashtra and ending up a distant junior partner to the ruling JMM in Jharkhand, further diminishing its role in the opposition bloc as other allies perform better. While the INDIA bloc's victory in Jharkhand was some consolation, losing a big state like Maharashtra after the upset in Haryana is likely to weaken the grand old party's broad bargaining power in this era of coalition politics.The Congress party's strength in Lok Sabha also got reduced to 98 seats after it lost the Nanded Lok Sabha to the BJP in the bypolls.The poor show of Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) in Maharashtra extinguished hopes of getting Rajya Sabha seats from the state in future.On the other hand, the NDA with its stupendous victory is set to get a majority in the Upper House in the next cycle of biennial elections.Despite being the dominant party of the opposition MVA in Maharashtra, the Congress failed to pull the weight of the opposition bloc and stood decimated in the face of an NDA tsunami.The Congress which contested the highest number of assembly seats among MVA allies, 101 out of 288, was winning or leading in only 16 seats with one of the lowest strike rates of 16 per cent.The worst strike rate in Maharashtra elections was of Sharad Pawar's NCP (SP) at 11.6 per cent (with lead/win in 10 seats out of 86 fought), Shiv Sena (UBT) managing 22 per cent (lead/ win in 21 seats as against 95 contested).On the other hand, the strike rate of the BJP was the highest with 88.6 per cent (lead/win in 132 seats out of 149 it contested).The BJP got a vote share of 26.46 per cent and was followed by Shiv Sena with 12.47 per cent and NCP with 9.35 per cent. Among the MVA, the Congress had the highest vote share of 11.89 per cent, followed by NCP-SP with 11.25 and Shiv Sena (UBT) with 10.28 per cent.Interestingly, other parties got more vote share of 13.84 per cent than each of the MVA partners.