Mumbai, 30 Apr

(HS): The problem in the Maha-Vikas Aghadi has been resolved with Congress

party declaring support to Ambadas Danve of UBT Sena. Danve will be the

official candidate of MVA.

During a press

conference in Mumbai Congress State Unit President Harshawardhan Sapkal

declared support to Danve, in the presence of NCP (Sharad Pawar) leader Supriya

Sule.

The final list

of candidate as of now for the nine seats of Legislative Council is

BJP – Sunil Karjatkar,

Madhavi Naik, Sanjay Bhende, Vivek Kolhe, Pramod Jathar and Pradnya Satav for

by-election.

Shiv Sena (Shinde)

– Bacchu Kadu and Dr Neelam Gorhe.

NCP (Ajit Pawar)

– Zishan Siddiqi.

MVA – Ambadas Danve

of UBT Sena group.

Dr Neelam Gorhe’s

name was also selected at the last moment.

Congress leaders

finally decided not to field candidate in the election.

Thursday is the

last day for filing nominations for the polling scheduled for May 12.

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Hindusthan Samachar / Ajay Vasant Mardikar