Over 60 pleas filed by INDIA bloc candidates challenging Maharashtra poll results
India TodayMembers of the INDIA alliance claim that about 63 election petitions have been filed across various benches of the Bombay High Court in Maharashtra against discrepancies in the recently held Assembly election. Eight Congress leaders from Vidarbha — Prafull Kudade, Yashonati Thakur, Subhash Dhote, Girish Pandav, Shekhar Shende, Satish Varjurkar, and Santosh Singh Rawat — along with four leaders from northern Maharashtra — KC Padvi, Balasaheb Thorat, Kunal Patil, and Pravin Chavare — have filed petitions before the Nagpur and Aurangabad benches of the High Court. These political candidates include Manohar Krishna Madhavi, Prashant Sudam Jagtap, Mahesh Kothe, Naresh Ratan Manera, and Sunil Chandrakant Bhusara, who have sought annulment of the election results in the contested constituencies. Kothe, another NCP candidate from the Solapur North constituency, has challenged the election result where BJP's Vijaykumar Deshmukh emerged victorious.