Uddhav Thackeray To Enter Maharashtra Legislative Council Unopposed

Mumbai:

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray is about to enter the Legislative Council unopposed after the Congress on Sunday mentioned it can withdraw one among its two candidates for elections to 9 seats on May 21.

“We have decided to field only one out of two nominees for the MLC elections, which means the MVA (Maha Vikas Aghadi of Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress) will have five nominees for as many seats (out of the total nine),” state Congress chief Balasaheb Thorat mentioned.

The BJP has fielded 4 candidates.

Shiv Sena chief Sanjay Raut had earlier at this time mentioned Mr Thackeray had conveyed that the election needs to be “unopposed”.

Mr Thackeray, who is just not a member of both homes of the state legislature, is likely one of the nominees for the election, which turned needed after phrases of the MLCs ended on April 24.

“Uddhav Thackeray personally feels that the election for the nine seats of the Legislative Council take place unopposed. He expects so because he wants to dedicate most of his time to the ongoing fight against coronavirus,” Mr Raut advised reporters earlier at this time.

As the Congress had earlier determined to subject just one candidate for the May 21 election, there have been 9 candidates for as many seats. But on Saturday, Mr Thorat tweeted that Rajkishore alias Papa Modi could be the occasion’s second candidate, apart from Rajesh Rathod, a Jalna zilla parishad member whose identify was introduced from Delhi.

Now one of many two candidates has been withdrawn. The 288-member Maharashtra meeting kinds an electoral school for the election, and a candidate wants 29 votes to win. The Congress has 44 MLAs. The final day of submitting nomination is tomorrow. Scrutiny of nominations will happen on May 12 and the final date of withdrawal of papers is May 14.