Nine members of Maharashtra Legislative Council including Uddhav Thackeray elected unopposed

Mumbai. The Election Commission had announced to hold elections on 9 vacant seats of the Maharashtra Legislative Council on May 21, but elections will no longer be required after members are elected unopposed on all 9 seats of the Legislative Council. 

It is being told that the deadline to withdraw his name from the election was till 14 May. After which an additional 3 candidates have withdrawn their names. After which now only 9 candidates were left in the field. For this reason, Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has been elected unanimously as a member of the Maharashtra Legislative Council.

Significantly, Uddhav Thackeray was sworn in as the Chief Minister of the state on November 28, due to which it was necessary to elect him as a member of either House of the Assembly or Legislative Council. Because the deadline of 6 months was about to end. According to the information, the 9 members who have been elected unopposed in Maharashtra’s Legislative Council include two of Shiv Sena, two of NCP, one of Congress and four of BJP. Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and Neelam Gorhe from Shiv Sena, Shashikant Shinde and Amol Mitkari from NCP and Ramesh Kard from Congress have been elected to the Legislative Council.

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For a seat in the Legislative Council, about 32 votes were required on the basis of first preference. In this context, it was believed that Maha Vikas Aghadi was making equations for six seats. The BJP was also eyeing four seats. But now Aghadi has got 5 seats and BJP has 4 seats.