Devendra Fadnavis to drop another 'bomb' on June 20: Maha BJP chief on MLC polls

Maharashtra BJP president Chandrakant Patil on Thursday said senior party leader Devendra Fadnavis showed his calibre in the recently held Rajya Sabha polls in the state and would drop another bomb on June 20 to ensure the partys win in the Legislative Council electionsFor the next weeks polls to the 10 seats of the legislative council the BJP has fielded five candidates while the three Maha Vikas Aghadi MVA constituents Shiv Sena NCP and Congress have nominated two candidates eachTalking to reporters here Patil said Leader of Opposition Devendra Fadnavis will drop another bomb on June 20 as the BJP is going to win all five seats in the Upper House of the state legislature He has already shown his calibre in the Rajya Sabha elections by winning all the three seats the party had contestedOne candidate needs the votes of at least 27 MLAs to get elected to the legislative councilThe BJP has 106 MLAs however it managed to gain the support of 123 MLAs during the Rajya Sabha elections For the party to win the fifth seat it needs almost 29 votes of independent MLAs and those belonging to smaller partiesAlso Read Devendra Fadnavis likens MVA govt with Babri structure says he wont rest till it is brought downWhen asked about it Patil said We are sure that we will win the fifth seat for MLC We have enough votes to sail through the situation and we will also win as Fadnavis is thereUnlike the Rajya Sabha polls where MLAs were required to show their ballot paper to their respective partys authorised representative after casting vote the legislative council elections will be held through secret ballot giving rise to apprehensions of crossingvoting and independents and smaller parties switching allegianceThe BJP has renominated outgoing MLCs Prasad Lad and Pravin Darekar and also given tickets to Ram Shinde Uma Khapre and Shrikant BharatiyaThe Congress has fielded Mumbai Congress chief Bhai Jagtap and former minister Chandrakant HandoreThe NCP has fielded Ramraje Naik Nimbalkar the current Chairman of the Legislative Council and former minister Eknath Khadse while the Shiv Sena has nominated Sachin Ahir and Amshya Padvi a party functionary from the tribaldominated Nandurbar districtVoting to the Upper House of the state legislature comes days after the Rajya Sabha elections where the BJP ensured a stunning victory for its third candidate Dhananjay Mahadik upsetting the game plan of the Shiv Sena whose candidate Sanjay Pawar lost in the June 10 pollsElections have been necessitated as 10 members of the Council are retiringThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever