BJP leader Jagdish Mulik and NCP’s Deepak Mankar eye Maharashtra Legislative Council membership
The bypolls to the five seats of the Maharashtra Legislative Council are scheduled to be held on March 27.
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Jagdish Mulik and Deepak Mankar from Pune are likely to make it to the Maharashtra Legislative Council as they were assured of the membership by their parties ahead of the Assembly elections. (Photo: Facebook/ Instagram)With the bypolls for the five seats in Maharashtra Legislative Council to be held later this month, two leaders from Pune are likely to make it to the body as they were assured of the membership by their parties ahead of the Assembly elections.
The bypolls to the five seats are scheduled to be held on March 27 after three members of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and one member each of the Shiv Sena and the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) were elected to the Assembly in the elections held last year.
Former Pune BJP chief Jagdish Mulik was assured of representation in the Legislative Council after he staked a claim for a party ticket for the Pune Lok Sabha seat and the Vadgaonsheri Assembly constituency during the elections held last year. Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis had asked him not to contest the Assembly election from Vadgaonsheri as an Independent candidate since the seat was being contested by then-sitting legislator Sunil Tingre of the NCP led by Ajit Pawar.
Mulik initially refused to work for the alliance partner during the Assembly election but after Fadnavis’s assurance, he decided to support Tingre. However, Tingre lost to Bapu Pathare of the NCP (SP).
“We are hopeful that our leader Mulik will be given the opportunity to be representative in the state legislative council,” said a BJP worker and supporter of Mulik.
Pune BJP chief Dheeraj Ghate also expressed disappointment after being refused a party ticket to contest the Maharashtra Assembly election from the Kasba constituency. He, too, was assured of an opportunity later.
The second name that is making rounds for the Maharashtra Legislative Council is Pune NCP chief Deepak Mankar. Mankar was assured of a council seat after being refused a ticket in the previous election of the Legislative Council. He offered to resign in protest but did not do so after discussing it with party chief Ajit Pawar.
“I was assured of Legislative Council membership in the past. I am still aspiring for it and hope to get the opportunity this time. However, I will accept whatever decision is taken by the party chief and will continue to work for the party,” said Mankar.
In the previous election of the Maharashtra Legislative Council, local NCP leaders protested when the name of state women commission chairperson and state NCP women wing chief Roopali Chakankar made the rounds as a probable candidate.
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