Five candidates from the ruling Mahayuti alliance, which includes the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Shiv Sena, and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), were on Tuesday elected unopposed to the Maharashtra Legislative Council after the opposition parties failed to field candidates for the March 27 bypolls to the Upper House, news agency PTI reported. 

Sandeep Joshi, Sanjay Kenekar, and Dadarao Keche from BJP, Chandrakant Raghuvanshi from the Shiv Sena, and Sanjay Khodke from NCP were elected unopposed, as no opposition candidates filed nominations by the deadline.