MLC Polls: Amid speculations over the possibility of cross-voting and horsetrading in the polls for the 11 Legislative Council seats scheduled for Friday in Maharashtra, Congress on Thursday held a dinner meeting at a hotel in Mumbai. Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray and NCP Maharashtra unit chief Jayant Patil attended the meeting. AICC in-charge of Maharashtra Ramesh Chennithala was also …
MUMBAI: Two years after a legislative council election led to an upheaval in Maharashtra politics, with the fall of the then Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi government and a split in the Shiv Sena, another election for 11 seats to the upper house of the state legislature has sparked off speculations and apprehension of cross-voting months before the assembly elections in the …
The biennial elections to 11 seats in the Maharashtra legislative council from the MLA quota will be a crucial test for the ruling Mahayuti and the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi ahead of the Assembly elections to be held later this year. The Bharatiya Janata Party has 103 MLAs, followed by the Ajit Pawar-led NCP's 40, Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena's 38. …
The ruling BJP is set to become the single largest party in the Maharashtra Legislative Council after the biennial elections to eleven seats in the Upper House of the state legislature on July 16. Considering their numerical strength in the Legislative Assembly, the BJP can comfortably win five seats, the Shiv Sena three, while Congress-NCP can safely win one seat …
