Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde Appeals to NCP Chief Sharad Pawar for Unopposed Bypolls in Pune | Information

Thane: Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Sunday mentioned he has requested NCP president Sharad Pawar and leaders of Congress to honour the political custom within the state to make sure unopposed bypolls to the seats that fall vacant as a result of loss of life of sitting lawmakers. The byelections to Kasba Peth and Chinchwad constituencies in Pune, scheduled for February 26, had been necessitated as a result of loss of life of MLAs Mukta Tilak and Laxman Jagtap, respectively. Each of them belonged to the BJP.

The outcomes of those bypolls can be declared on March 2.

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The Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP), which shares energy with Balasahebanchi Shiv Sena led by Shinde, on Saturday introduced the candidature of Hemant Rasane from Kasba Peth constituency and Ashwini Jagtap, widow of Laxman Jagtap, from Chinchwad seat in Pimpri-Chinchwad township.

Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), an alliance of Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray), Nationalist Congress Celebration (NCP) and Congress, has to this point not declared its candidates for the byelections.

“I spoke with NCP Chief Sharad Pawar, Chief of Opposition Ajit Pawar, state NCP chief Jayant Patil, his Congress counterpart Nana Patole, and MNS president Raj Thackeray on Saturday.

“I requested them that the custom of the unopposed election of candidates fielded from the seats that fall vacant as a result of loss of life of sitting representatives be upheld,” Shinde instructed reporters in Kalyan.

He recalled the BJP had withdrawn its nominee for the Andheri meeting bypoll in Mumbai final yr on the attraction made by Sharad Pawar and Raj Thackeray.

The BJP’s transfer ensured that Rutuja Latke, the candidate for the Uddhav faction of the Shiv Sena, sailed by comfortably.

That byelection was necessitated by the loss of life of Latke’s husband and Shiv Sena legislator Ramesh Latke in Could.