All 4 MVA nominees will win Rajya Sabha polls: Maha Congress chief Nana Patole

All four candidates of the Maha Vikas Aghadi MVA will win the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections from Maharashtra state Congress chief Nana Patole said on WednesdayThe Congress is a constituent of Maharastras ruling MVA which also comprises the Shiv Sena and NCPElections to six Rajya Sabha seats from the state are scheduled on June 10The MVA has fielded four candidates while the opposition BJP has nominated three of its leaders for the pollsTalking to reporters in Shirdi Patole parried questions on the discontent within the Congress over the candidature of Imran Pratapgarhi partys minority cell head who hails from Uttar PradeshI said on the day of filing nomination of Pratapgarhi that all four candidates will be victorious We have the arithmetic with us he saidThe Congress on Wednesday started the Nav Sankalp Workshop at Shirdi in Maharashtra on the lines of the partys Chintan Shivir held in Rajasthans Udaipur city last monthThere has been a discontent over the Congresss decision to field Pratapgarhi who is not from the state Maharashtra Congress general secretary Ashish Deshmukh had resigned to protest over Pratapgarhis candidatureFormer chief minister and senior Congress leader Prithviraj Chavan had suggested that Mukul Wasnik who is contesting from Rajasthan be fielded from Maharashtra as he hails from the stateSome leaders had taken to Twitter to express their displeasure over the partys decisionHowever Patole attributed the Congresss decision to democracy in the partyHe also said that 4050 officebearers have tendered resignation from various Congress posts in line with the partys decision of one person one post taken during the Chintan Shivir in UdaipurThe six Rajya Sabha seats from Maharashtra will go to polls on June 10 However there are seven candidates in the fray for the polls for which the state Assembly forms the electoral collegeThe BJP with its strength in the state Assembly can win two Rajya Sabha seats on its own The Congress NCP and Shiv Sena can win one seat eachHowever the Sena has fielded two candidates Sanjay Raut and Sanjay Pawar and is banking on surplus votes of the Congress and NCP for the victoryThe BJP has fielded Union minister Piyush Goyal and senior leaders Anil Bonde and Dhananjay MahadikThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever