Maharashtra Mlc Polls

In a worrying sign for the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi in Maharashtra, seven MLAs cross-voted for candidates from the ruling Mahayuti alliance in the Legislative Council polls on Friday, sources said.

The BJP-led Mahayuti alliance - consisting of Chief Minister Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena and the NCP of Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, in addition to the BJP - in Maharashtra has won six of 11 seats in MLC polls.

Resort politics has made a comeback in Maharashtra, as has the possibility of cross-voting and horsetrading, as the state gears up to hold elections for 11 Legislative Council seats on Friday.

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Monday hit back at the NCP's Ajit Pawar for claiming "selfish" leaders of the BJP got two terminally-ill MLAs from Pune to Mumbai to vote in the MLC and Rajya Sabha polls.

Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde, who was camping in Gujarat before leaving for Assam with around 33 party MLAs following the cross-voting in Maharashtra Legislative Council (MLC) polls, said that they have not left Balasaheb Thackeray's Shiv Sena.

Maharashtra ex-home minister Anil Deshmukh and cabinet minister Nawab Malik on Monday approached the Supreme Court challenging the Bombay High Court order rejecting their pleas to vote at the Maharashtra Legislative Council (MLC) polls.

The Maharashtra Legislative Council (MLC) biennial elections on Monday will witness another contest between the BJP and Congress after the recently concluded Rajya Sabha elections.

The Bombay High Court on Friday rejected the petitions filed by Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik and former home minister Anil Deshmukh seeking its permission to cast votes in the June 20 Legislative Council (MLC) elections.

The Bombay High Court on Thursday reserved the order pleas on Maharashtra Minister Nawab Malik and former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh for permission to cast their votes for the MLC polls on June 20.

In a jolt to the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance in Maharashtra the BJP won four of the six seats in the state Legislative Council, including Nagpur, and wrested the Akola-Buldhana-Washim seat from the Shiv Sena.

Ahead of the Maharashtra Legislative Council (MLC) polls for Nagpur seat on December 10, the BJP flew its corporators from the civic body to various locations in the country to prevent a break in the ranks, a party functionary said on Monday.

Congress on Monday named Dr Prajnya Rajeev Satav, wife of the late party leader Rajeev Satav, as its candidate for Maharashtra Legislative Council (MLC) bypolls.

The results of biennial polls to the Legislative Council show that the political situation in Maharashtra has changed, NCP chief Sharad Pawar said in Pune today.

The Maharashtra Cabinet today decided to recommend Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray's name for one of the two vacant MLC seats that are to be nominated by Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari to the legislative council to avoid a constitutional crisis, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader and Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik said.

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MLC Ramrao Wadkute and former party MLA Bappu Pathare joined the BJP on Tuesday, ahead of the next week''s Maharashtra Assembly polls.

In a worrying sign for the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi in Maharashtra, seven MLAs cross-voted for candidates from the ruling Mahayuti alliance in the Legislative Council polls on Friday, sources said.

The BJP-led Mahayuti alliance - consisting of Chief Minister Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena and the NCP of Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, in addition to the BJP - in Maharashtra has won six of 11 seats in MLC polls.

Resort politics has made a comeback in Maharashtra, as has the possibility of cross-voting and horsetrading, as the state gears up to hold elections for 11 Legislative Council seats on Friday.

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Monday hit back at the NCP's Ajit Pawar for claiming "selfish" leaders of the BJP got two terminally-ill MLAs from Pune to Mumbai to vote in the MLC and Rajya Sabha polls.

Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde, who was camping in Gujarat before leaving for Assam with around 33 party MLAs following the cross-voting in Maharashtra Legislative Council (MLC) polls, said that they have not left Balasaheb Thackeray's Shiv Sena.

Maharashtra ex-home minister Anil Deshmukh and cabinet minister Nawab Malik on Monday approached the Supreme Court challenging the Bombay High Court order rejecting their pleas to vote at the Maharashtra Legislative Council (MLC) polls.

The Maharashtra Legislative Council (MLC) biennial elections on Monday will witness another contest between the BJP and Congress after the recently concluded Rajya Sabha elections.

The Bombay High Court on Friday rejected the petitions filed by Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik and former home minister Anil Deshmukh seeking its permission to cast votes in the June 20 Legislative Council (MLC) elections.

The Bombay High Court on Thursday reserved the order pleas on Maharashtra Minister Nawab Malik and former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh for permission to cast their votes for the MLC polls on June 20.

In a jolt to the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance in Maharashtra the BJP won four of the six seats in the state Legislative Council, including Nagpur, and wrested the Akola-Buldhana-Washim seat from the Shiv Sena.

Ahead of the Maharashtra Legislative Council (MLC) polls for Nagpur seat on December 10, the BJP flew its corporators from the civic body to various locations in the country to prevent a break in the ranks, a party functionary said on Monday.

Congress on Monday named Dr Prajnya Rajeev Satav, wife of the late party leader Rajeev Satav, as its candidate for Maharashtra Legislative Council (MLC) bypolls.

The results of biennial polls to the Legislative Council show that the political situation in Maharashtra has changed, NCP chief Sharad Pawar said in Pune today.

The Maharashtra Cabinet today decided to recommend Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray's name for one of the two vacant MLC seats that are to be nominated by Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari to the legislative council to avoid a constitutional crisis, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader and Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik said.

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MLC Ramrao Wadkute and former party MLA Bappu Pathare joined the BJP on Tuesday, ahead of the next week''s Maharashtra Assembly polls.