Maharashtra legislature's monsoon session postponed to June 27

The monsoon session of the Maharashtra legislature which was earlier scheduled to commence on June 10 is now expected to begin in end of June reported PTI citing state forest minister Sudhir Mungantiwar on ThursdaySpeaking to reporters in Mumbai he said Earlier it was decided that the Maharashtra legislatures monsoon session will start on June 10 Now it has been postponed until June 27Although the minister did not provide any reason for the postponement it appears the move is linked to the formation of the new BJPled National Democratic Alliance NDA government at the Centre said the PTI reportOn Friday in New Delhi the newly elected members of the National Democratic Alliance NDA are expected to meet and choose Narendra Modi as their leader supporting him to assume the office of prime minister for a third term The swearingin is likely to be held on Sunday June 9 some alliance members said reported PTIThe upcoming session of the Maharashtra legislature in Mumbai will be the last one before the state heads to assembly polls which are due in OctoberMumbai parties move on to MLC pollsAfter the LS polls BJP and Shiv Sena UBT party workers in Mumbai are now focusing on the graduate and teachers constituency elections of the Maharashtra Legislative Council Both parties have urged their workers to remain vigilant and reach out to every voter The term of the current member will end on July 7 According to the EC the elections for both constituencies will be held on June 26 with the results announced on July 1A BJP Mumbai leader stated that the voting outcome for the graduate constituency depends on which party registered more voters Our leader has already instructed us to reach out to every graduate voter On Sunday Mumbai BJP president Adv Ashish Shelar conducted a meeting with senior party members of the city to discuss the strategy for the MLC electionAfter the meeting while speaking with the media MLA Ashish Shelar said ldquoDue to the good voter registration done through the organisation party members insist that BJP should contest both the teacher and graduate election seats in Mumbai The final decision will be made by the regions core committee and as a Mahayuti the steering committee will discuss it among themselves and announce it in a few daysrdquoShiv Sena UBT announced Anil Parab as the candidate for the graduate constituency and J M Abhyankar for the teachers constituency J M Abhyankar is a school education expert and the division head of the UBT Shikshak Sena He has also held the post of the chairman of the state scheduled castes and tribes commissionSince 1985 we have won this constituency Our Shakha local party offices have a list of every graduate voter and we have already started meeting them stated the UBT leader emphasising the significance of voter registration in determining the outcome of graduate constituency electionsAccording to the EC data there are around 91253 voters in the graduate constituency and 14515 voters in the teachers constituency Former member of the graduate constituency of undivided Shiv Sena Dr Deepak Sawant is also willing to contest the election again He is now with Chief Minister Eknath Shindeled Shiv Sena