The Election Fee of India Monday introduced that bypolls for the 5 seats in Maharashtra Legislative Council will likely be held on March 27.
The voting will likely be held the day after the four-week Finances Session of the Meeting concludes on March 26. The bypolls have been necessitated after 5 Members of Legislative Council (MLCs) have been elected as MLAs within the 2024 Meeting elections.
These 5 MLCs embrace three from BJP— Praveen Datke, Gopichand Padalkar, Ramesh Karad — and one every from NCP (SP) (Rajesh Vitekar) and Shiv Sena (Amisha Padvi).
Whereas Padvi’s time period within the Legislative Council is until July 7, 2028, Vitekar’s time period is until July 27, 2030. The tenure of Praveen Datke, Ramesh Karad and Gopichand Padalkar will finish on Might 13, 2026. The ECI will situation a notification on the bypolls on March 10.
Whereas nominations should be filed by March 17, the final date for withdrawal of nominations is March 20. The polling will likely be held between 9 am and 4 pm on March 27, and the votes will likely be counted at 5 pm on the identical day.
The 288 MLAs will train their votes for the appointment of MLCs. The overall energy within the state council is 78. Presently, BJP has 19 MLCs; adopted by NCP, Congress and Sena (UBT) with seven every; Shiv Sena with six; NCP (SP) three and independents three. As many as 26 seats are vacant.
