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Maharashtra MLC polls: Shiv Sena (UBT) to field candidate for council polls

"We (Shiv Sena UBT) will field a candidate in the council polls because there are 11 seats and every party (of the opposition - the NCP (SP), Shiv Sena (UBT) and Congress) can win one seat each. Our votes are fixed," Thackeray said, fuelling speculation that there will be cross-voting.

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Uddhav Thackeray waves upon his arrival at the Vidhan Bhavan on the first day of the Monsoon session of the state Assembly, in Mumbai. Pic/ PTI

Uddhav Thackeray waves upon his arrival at the Vidhan Bhavan on the first day of the Monsoon session of the state Assembly, in Mumbai. Pic/ PTI

The Shiv Sena (UBT) will field its candidate for the upcoming Maharashtra legislative council polls, its chief Uddhav Thackeray said on Thursday, reported PTI. He asserted that the opposition has got its math right in order to get its nominee elected.

The biennial elections for 11 seats of the Upper House of the state legislature will take place on July 12. This is the first council election in Maharashtra Since the vertical split in Shiv Sena and the Nationalist Congress Party. 

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