20 November,2020 02:20 PM IST | Mumbai | ANI
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray
The ruling Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) has released a list of all five candidates for the December 1 biennial election to five graduates' and teachers' constituencies of the State Legislative Council.
Nationalist Congress Party and Congress of the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) will contest on two seats each, while Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena will only contest on one seat in the upcoming Legislative Council elections.
Shiv Sena's Shrikant Deshpande has been chosen to fight for the Amravati region teacher's constituency, while NCP's Arun Lad and Satish Chavan will contest from Pune and Aurangabad graduate constituencies respectively. Congress' Jayant Asgaonkar and Abhijit Vanjari were fielded from the Pune teachers constituency and Nagpur graduate constituency respectively.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) had on November 2 declared polls for five seats of the Maharashtra Legislative Council, which have been vacant since July 19 after the completion of the term of the sitting members.
ALSO READ
Karnataka results won't affect Lok Sabha, Maharashtra elections: CM Shinde
Maharashtra Assembly polls: MVA must revert by Sept 9 on alliance, says AIMIM
Maharashtra: Uddhav skips Rahul Gandhi's public events in Sangli
Express views peacefully, don’t create ruckus: Mhaske on JPC for Waqf Act
No tussle among MVA allies over CM post: Aaditya
The elections will be held between 8 am and 5 pm on December 1 and counting of votes will take place on December 3, the ED had announced.
The five seats are being vacated by Chavan Satish Bhanudasrao, Chandrakant Bachhu Patil, Anil Madhukar Sole, Shrikant Deshpande, and Dattatraya Achyutrao Sawant.
Catch up on all the latest Crime, National, International and Hatke news here. Also download the new mid-day Android and iOS apps to get latest updates.
Mid-Day is now on Telegram. Click here to join our channel (@middayinfomedialtd) and stay updated with the latest news
This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed, agencies. Mid-day accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability, trustworthiness, reliability and data of the text. Mid-day management/mid-day.com reserves the sole right to alter, delete or remove (without notice) the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever
