Biennial elections 2024: 12 candidates in fray for 11 seats in Maharashtra

As many as 12 candidates including the Bharatiya Janata Partys BJP Pankaja Munde and Uddhav Thackerays personal aide Milind Narvekar remaining in the fray biennial elections 2024 to 11 seats in the Maharashtra Legislative Council will be held on July 12 reported the PTIFriday was the last date of withdrawal of nominations for the election in which Members of the Legislative Assembly MLAs would cast voteThe sixyearterm of 11 sitting MLCs ends on July 27The BJP has fielded Pankaja Munde who recently lost the Lok Sabha election from Beed Amit Gorkhe Sadabhau Khot and Yogesh Tilekar besides giving ticket again to Parinay Phuke a sitting member of the council according to the PTIThe Shiv Sena led by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has fielded former MPs Bhavana Gawli and Krupal Tumane The Nationalist Congress Party led by deputy CM Ajit Pawar has fielded Shivajirao Garje and Rajesh Vitekar as per the PTIOn the Opposition side Congress has given ticket again to sitting MLC Pradnya Satav Jayant Patil of Peasants and Workers Party is seeking reelection as a candidate of the NCP Sharadchandra PawarShiv Sena UBT has fielded Milind Narvekar a close aide of party chief Uddhav ThackerayA candidate will require 23 votes to win The current strength of the Maharashtra assembly is 274At present the BJP has 103 MLAs Shiv Sena 38 NCP 42 Congress 37 Shiv Sena UBT 15 and NCP SP tenThe Prahar Janshakti party has two MLAs Jansurajya Party one RSP one PWP 1 BVA two MNS one CPM one AIMIM two Samajwadi Party two Swabhimani Paksh one Krantikari Shetkari Party one There are 13 independent MLAsMVA leaders meet in Mumbai discuss strategy for Jul 12 MLC pollsMeanwhile the Maha Vikas Aghadi MVA leaders met on Friday to discuss the alliances strategy for the Maharashtra Legislative Council polls to 11 seats slated for July 12 as per the PTIThe meeting took place in NCP SP chief Sharad Pawars office at YB Chavan Centre in south Mumbai and was attended by Shiv Sena UBT chief Uddhav Thackeray Congress leaders Prithviraj Chavan and Balasaheb Thorat state Congress president Nana Patole and NCP SP leader Jayant PatilOthers who took part in the meeting included Congress Naseem Khan Shiv Sena UBT leaders Aaditya Thackeray and Sanjay Raut as well as NCP SP leaders Anil Deshmukh Rajesh Tope and Rohit PawarMVA sources said the joint manifesto for the upcoming assembly polls was also discussedThe Congress has fielded Pradnya Satav for the MLC polls while the Shiv Sena UBT candidate is Milind Narvekar The NCP SP is supporting Peasant and Workers Partys Jayant PatilLeader of Opposition in the Assembly Vijay Wadettiwar left the meeting early as he had to board a flight for Nagpur PTI MRwith PTI inputs