Maharashtra Bypolls: BJP Releases Record Of three Candidates For State Legislative Council | India Information
The BJP on Sunday introduced the names of three candidates, together with a detailed aide of Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and a former MLA, for the March 27 by-elections to 5 seats within the state legislative council.
The by-elections have been necessitated as a result of victory of the 5 sitting MLCs within the November 2024 meeting polls.
Three of the MLCs who entered the meeting have been from the BJP, adopted by one every of the Shiv Sena and the NCP. All three events are constituent of the ruling Mahayuti coalition within the state.
The BJP on Sunday introduced the names of Sandip Diwakarrao Joshi, former mayor of Nagpur and a detailed aide of Fadnavis, Sanjay Kishanrao Kenekar, common secretary of the state BJP unit, and former MLA Dadarao Yadavrao Keche, for the council bypolls.
Keche received the 2009 and 2019 meeting elections from the Arvi constituency in Wardha district of the Vidarbha area. He was denied ticket for the 2024 polls because the BJP then fielded Fadnavis’ former private secretary Sumit Wankhede from the Arvi seat.
The final day for submitting nominations by candidates is March 17.
The byelections of the MLCs are from the MLA quota within the 288-member legislative meeting.
The BJP has 132 MLAs, Shiv Sena 57, and NCP 41, making them comfortably positioned to win all of the 5 seats, given their dominating presence within the decrease home.
The final date of scrutiny of nominations is March 18, whereas candidates can withdraw from the competition on March 20. If wanted, voting will happen on March 27, with the MLAs forming the electoral faculty.
