Maharashtra Legislative Council elections were held on Monday. In the declared results, two candidates each from Shiv Sena and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) won. Apart from this, four candidates of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) were also declared winners.
Shiv Sena’s Sachin Ahir and must have Won with NCP’s Eknath Khadse and Ramraje Nimbalka. Shrikant Bharti, Praveen Darekar, Uma Khapre and Ram Shinde won the Legislative Assembly elections from BJP.
The fate of Congress candidates Chandrakant Handore, Bhai Jagtap and BJP’s Prasad Lad is unknown. Only two out of three will be able to go to the Legislative Council.
Earlier, Returning Officer mlc election Two votes were invalidated – one each from ruling ally NCP and opposition BJP – following objections by leaders of the respective parties.
Counting process postponed for almost half an hour due to objections and invalidation of votes Hindustan Times,
The report further said that the counting of votes, originally scheduled to begin at 5 pm, was delayed by over two hours after the Congress objected to the votes cast by BJP MLAs Mukta Tilak and Laxman Jagtap.
According to the report published in Hindustan TimesAiling opposition legislators cast their votes with the help of assistants, which was opposed by the Congress, a key constituent of the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA).
The Election Commission of India (ECI) overruled the Congress’s objection and proceeded with the counting of votes. Later, a BJP leader objected to the ballot paper in which NCP candidate Ramraje Nimbalkar got the first preference vote. Similarly, from the NCP’s side, BJP candidate Uma Khapre had received objections against the first preference ballot paper.
returning officer Maharashtra Legislative Building He assessed the objections in South Mumbai and declared both the ballot papers invalid.
With this, the total number of valid votes came down to 283 (the actual strength of the Legislative Assembly is 288, out of which 285 MLAs were eligible to participate due to one seat being vacant, while two jailed members were barred from voting. was stopped. process).
Altogether, 11 candidates were in the fray – five from BJP and two each from Maha Vikas Aghadi allies Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress.
(with inputs from agencies)