Eleven newly elected legislators took oath as members of the Maharashtra legislative council at the Vidhan Bhavan’s Central hall on Sunday. The ruling Mahayuti alliance of the BJP, Shiv Sena and NCP won all the nine seats it contested in polls to 11 seats of the state legislative council held on July 12. The MLCs who took oath on Sunday are BJP’s Pankaja Munde, Parinay Fuke, Yogesh Tilekar, Amit Gorkhe and Sadabhau Khot, NCP’s Rajesh Vitekar and party general secretary Shivajirao Garje, Shiv Sena’s Bhawana Gawali and Krupal Tumane, Congress’s…
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Social engineering at work: Among BJP’s 5 picks for MLC polls, 3 OBCs, Maratha and Dalit faces | Mumbai News
BJP’s central leadership Monday announced five candidates, including party’s national secretary Pankaja Munde, for the legislative council elections in Maharashtra to be held on July 12. The BJP, which faced a debacle in the state in the recently held Lok Sabha elections, focussed on social engineering while choosing the candidates for the Maharashtra Legislative Council (MLC), where the party hopes to get five seats based on its strength in the state Assembly. Out of the five candidates, three of them — Pankaja, Parinay Phuke and Yogesh Tilekar — represent the…