MLC polls: 2 from BJP, one each from Sena, Congress elected unopposed as rivals withdraw nomination

From Kolhapur, Congress candidate and Minister of State for Home Satej Patil was declared as elected unopposed after the BJP candidate, Amal Mahadik, withdrew the nomination. From Dhule-Nandurbar, the BJP’s Amrish Patel was elected unopposed after Congress candidate Gaurav Wani withdrew the nomination.

For Nagpur seat, BJP’s Chandrashekhar Bawankule and Congress’s Ravindra Bhoyar are in the fray. For Akola-Buldhana-Washim seat, Shiv Sena has fielded sitting legislator Gopikishan Bajoria against BJP’s Vasant Khandelwal.

The Election Commission of India had recently announced elections to the Maharashtra Legislative Council according to which two seats from the BMC and one each from Kolhapur, Dhule-Nandurbar, Akola-Buldhana-Washim and Nagpur local authorities’ constituencies were to go to polls. The last date of filing the nomination was November 23.

The counting of votes will take place on December 14.

At present, of the six seats, the Shiv Sena, the Congress and the BJP have two legislators each in the upper house of the state legislature.