After the Congress withdrew from Mumbai’s legislative council fray, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) pulled back from Kolhapur and also convinced the Congress to opt out of Dhule on Friday. However, the Congress and BJP will fight it out in Nagpur, and the Sena will attempt to retain its seat in a combined constituency of three districts in western Vidarbha.

Of the six vacancies in which local self-government members vote, two in Mumbai and one each in Kolhapur and Dhule will have no polling on December 10.  The Shiv Sena (Sunil Shinde) and the BJP (Rajhans Singh) will be elected unopposed, while in Kolhapur, the Congress (minister of state Satej Patil), and in Dhule, the BJP (Amarish Patel) are through for re-election to the upper house.