Maharashtra BJP's Amrishbhai Patel wins Dhule and Nandurbar local bodies MLC bypoll

On Thursday, BJP won Dhule-Nurbar local bodies MLC seat in bypoll that was necessitated after sitting MLC Amrishbhai Patel left Congress and joined BJP. Maharashtra Legislative Council has a strength of 78, out of which elections took place on six seats on Tuesday and counting is underway on Thursday. seats include Pune Division Gruates' constituency, Nagpur Division Gruates' constituency, Aurangab Division Gruates' constituency, Amravati Division Teachers' constituency, Pune Division Teachers' constituency and Dhule-Nandurbar Local Bodies' constituency.

On October 1, 2019, Amrishbhai Patel left Congress and in bypolls he was in a direct fight against Congress' Abhijit Patil. Patel has w won seat keeping up his record of never losing any election. or five seats witnessed a contest between Sangram Deshmukh (BJP) and Arun L (NCP) in Pune Division Gruates seat, Sandeep Joshi (BJP) and Abhijeet Vanjari (Congress) in Nagpur Division Gruates' seat, Shirish Boralkar (BJP and Satish Chavan (NCP) in Aurangab Division Gruates' seat, Nitin Dhande (BJP) and Shrikant Deshpande (Shiv Sena) in Amravati Division Teachers' constituency, Jayant Asgaonkar (Congress) and Jitendra Pawar (BJP) in Pune Division Gruates' seat.

terms of MLCs namely Satish Chavan (NCP), Chandrakant Patil (BJP), Anil Sole (BJP), and two Independent MLCs Shrikant Deshpande and Dattratray Sawant, ended on July 19.

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MVA Finalises 12 minees For Legislative Council

On Friday, Maha Vikas Aghi government in Maharashtra finalized list of 12 minated members to  Maharashtra Legislative Council. Goverr is mandated by Constitution to minate to legislative council 12 members from fields of literature, art, science, cooperative movement, and social service on recommendation of state government. As per sources, actor and former Congress leer Urmila Matondkar, Chandrakant Raghuwanshi, Vijay Karanjkar, and Nitin Bangude Patil have been selected from Shiv Sena quota.

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Row over CM's MLC mination

As per Article 164(4) of Constitution, a n-legislator ceases to be a minister if he is t elected to eir House of legislature within a period of 6 months. Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray who was t a member of eir House since being sworn in on vember 28, 2019, was set to be fielded as a candidate to one of 9 MLC seats falling vacant on April 24. However, Election Commission of India indefinitely postponed Rajya Sabha and Legislative Council polls in current period owing to COVID-19 crisis.

Thus, only option for Thackeray was to enter Legislative Council as a minated member. Despite Maharashtra Cabinet recommending his mination as an MLC twice, Maharashtra Goverr Bhagat Singh Koshyari refused to follow suit. Sena chief reportedly h a telephonic conversation with Prime Minister Narendra Modi regarding this issue on April 29.

A day later,  Goverr wrote to Election Commission of India requesting election for 9 MLC seats to be held soon. On May 1, ECI agreed to this request and decided to conduct MLC elections with counting of votes scheduled on May 21. Finally, 9 candidates including Thackeray were elected upposed to Maharashtra Legislative Council on May 14, thus averting a constitutional crisis. 

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