UDDHAV SENA STICKS ITS NECK OUT, FIELDS MILIND NARVEKAR FOR MAHARASHTRA LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL POLLS

With the Shiv Sena (UBT) fielding Milind Narvekar as its candidate for the July 12 Maharashtra Legislative Council elections on the last day of filing of nominations on Tuesday, the Maha Vikas Aghadi will have three candidates in the fray though it has numbers to get only two candidates elected.

The Indian Express is the first to report about the nomination of Narvekar, said to be close to Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray.

While the Congress has renominated Pradnya Satav, the wife of late Congress leader Rajeev Satav, the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) has decided to back Jayant Patil of the Peasants and Workers Party.

From the Mahayuti, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has fielded five candidates — Pankaja Munde, Amit Gorkhe, Yogesh Tilekar, Sadabhau Khot, and Dr Pranay Phuke.

The NCP led by Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar has fielded Rajesh Vitekar and Shivajirao Garje. “Rajesh Vitekar was to be fielded from Parbhani for Lok Sabha elections. However, the seat was allocated at the last minute to Madhav Jankar's party. Therefore, the party has now nominated him,” said NCP spokesperson Umesh Patil.

The Shiv Sena of Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has fielded Bhavana Gawali, who was denied the Lok Sabha nomination despite having won five times from the Yavatmal-Washim constituency. The second Sena candidate is Krupal Tumane. Tumane, a former MP, was denied a ticket by the Sena from the Ramtek constituency in the recently held Lok Sabha elections.

Each candidate needs 23 votes of MLAs to get elected as an MLC. The BJP-led Mahayuti has the support of more than 200 MLAs, including Independents.

The Maha Vikas Aghadi has the support of 63 MLAs, and is short of at least six votes to get all the three candidates elected. “We are confident of our candidate winning,” said Uddhav Sena spokesperson Sanjay Raut.

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