Mumbai,

01 June (HS): The aspirants in 17 seats to the Legislative Council filed

nomination papers on Monday. Monday was the last date for filing nominations.

Regular elections against 16 seats and one by-election in Nagpur will be held

on June 18.

Two

candidates each from NCP (Ajita Pawar) and NCP (Sharad Pawar) filed nominations

in Sangli-Satara constituency, while Shiv Sena (Shinde) leader Abdul Sattar’s

son Sameer Sattar filed nomination as an independent candidate. Sattar is

contesting elections against the official BJP candidate, as he was denied the

party ticket. Congress candidates Madhavrao Patil and Ramdas Patil have filed

nominations for Nanded seat.

Out of

the 70 Legislative Council srats, 22 are elected by local government

authorities. During selection of the candidates, internal differences were

apparent in both ruling Mahayuti and Opposition Maha-Vikas Aghadi partners.

The

candidates who have filed nominations are –

MAHAYUTI

BJP

Wardha-Chandrapur-Gadchiroli – Arun Lakhani;

Bhandara-Gondi –Avinash Brahmankar; Amravati – Pravin Pote Patil; Solapur –

Rajendra Raut; Sangli-Satara – Dhairyashil Kadam; Ahilyanagar – Prajakt Tanpure;

Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar –Jalna – Suhas Shirsat; Nanded – Amar Rajurkar,

Dharashiv-Beed-Latur – Basavrao Patil; Jalgaon – Nandkishor Mahajan; Nagpur

(By-poll) – Dr Rajiv Potdar

Shiv Sena

(Eknath Shinde

Thane –

Ravindra Phatak; Nashik – Narendra Darade; Parbhani-Hingoli – Saeed Khan;

Yavatmal – Dushyant Chaturvedi.

NCP (AP)

Raigad-Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg

– Aniket Tatkare; Pune – Vikram Kakde and Sunil Tingre.

MAHA-VIKAS

AGHADI

Congress

Chandrapur-Wardha-Gadchiroli

– Shailesh Deshmukh; Amravati – Harshadip Deshmukh; Yavatmal – Sahebrao Kamble;

Latur – Mahesh Deshmukh; Solapur – Aditya Fattepurkar; Nanded – Madhavrao Patil

and Ramdas Patil; Nagpur – Atul Londhe.

Shiv Sena

(UBT)

Nashik –

Anil Kadam; Parbhani-Hingoli – Dr Vivek Navandar; Chhatrapati

Sambhajinagar-Jalna – Devayani Krishna Patil Dongaonkar; Jalgaon – Sharad Tayde;

Raigad-Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg – Surendranath alias Bal Mane.

NCP (SP)

Sangli-Satara

– Abhay Jagtap and Balasaheb Patil; Pune – Shrikant Patil; Thane – Abhijit Pawar.

Independent

Chhatrapati

Sambhajinagar-Jalna – Sameer Sattar.

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Hindusthan Samachar / Ajay Vasant Mardikar