Kadam Sena candidate for legislative council poll

As political parties gear up for elections to nine vacant seats in the Legislative Council eight from local self-governing bodies constituencies including Mumbai and one from Nashik Graduates Constituency ...

As political parties gear up for elections to nine vacant seats in the Legislative Council eight from local self-governing bodies constituencies including Mumbai and one from Nashik Graduates Constituency the Shiv Sena has nominated Leader of the Opposition in the previous assembly,Ramdas Kadam,as its MLC candidate from Mumbai.

The move to select Kadam from among several contenders in Mumbai is being seen as the partys bid to rehabilitate the leader who was defeated in the recent Assembly polls in Guhagar. The Congress-NCP,meanwhile,reached an understanding on seat sharing for the MLC polls to be held on December 18.

Kadam,nominated to contest one of the two vacant seats in Mumbai,said that he would file his nomination on Monday. Kadams Khed constituency in Konkan had been wiped out in the delimitation and he had contested this time from neighbouring Guhagar,leading Dr Vinay Natu of the BJP,who represented the constituency in the previous assembly,to rebel. Kadam was defeated in a triangular fight with NCPs Bhaskar Jadhav and Natu. Jadhav,a former Sena MLA,emerging victorious .

There were a number of contenders for the Council seat in the Sena,including TV compere Aadesh Bandekar who had lost the Assembly elections from Mahim,Sena secretary Anil Desai,former MLC Ravindra Mirlekar and Arvind Sawant. The BJP has re-nominated Madhu Chavan for the other seat in Mumbai.

The Congress is said to be considering former MLA Bhai Jagtap,besides Raj Shroff,R R Singh,Sachin Samant and Ashish Kulkarni for the MLC nominations.

An understanding has been reached between the Congress and the NCP for the MLC polls,with the former to contest from local bodies constituencies in Mumbai,Ahmednagar,Nagpur,Dhule-Nandurbar and Kolhapur,and the latter from Solapur,Akola and Buldhana. The NCP would contest from Nashik Graduates Constituency.

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Kadam Sena candidate for legislative council poll

As political parties gear up for elections to nine vacant seats in the Legislative Council  eight from local self-governing bodies constituencies including Mumbai and one from Nashik Graduates Constituency ...

As political parties gear up for elections to nine vacant seats in the Legislative Council eight from local self-governing bodies constituencies including Mumbai and one from Nashik Graduates Constituency ...