Lagatar24 Desk
Mumbai, June 21: Following allegations of cross-voting in the Maharashtra MLC elections, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray called an emergency meeting of all Shiv Sena MLAs on Tuesday. According to sources, all MLAs have been asked to attend the meeting in full. Meanwhile, Eknath Shinde, a Bal Thackeray supporter, will speak at a press conference in Surat today at noon.
Chandrakant Handore, the Maha Vikas Aghadi candidate from the Congress, had lost in the MLS polls. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) got five seats, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and Shiv Sena won two apiece while Congress was able to clinch one seat out of the total 10 seats in Maharashtra Legislative Council (MLC) that went to polls on Monday.
There were eleven people running for the ten seats in the MLC. Pravin Darekar, Ram Shinde, Shrikant Bharatiya, Uma Khapre, and Prasad Lad the BJP’s five candidates all won.
The NCP’s Ramraje Nimbalkar and Eknath Khadse, as well as the Shiv Sena’s Aamshya Padavi and Sachin Ahir, all won seats. Bhai Jagtap, one of the two candidates fielded by the Congress, won, while Chandrakant Handore lost.
Notably, the BJP has 106 MLAs, the Shiv Sena has 56, the NCP has 53, and the Congress has 44. The MLC polls were voted on by a total of 285 members. Former Home Ministers Anil Deshmukh and Nawab Malik were not allowed to vote since they are in judicial detention on money laundering charges.
