BJP releases candidates for MLC elections in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar
India | Mar 09, 2024, 04:36 PM ISTThe tenure of 13 MLCs in Uttar Pradesh will end on May 5. BJP with its allies can have a maximum of 10 MLCs and SP may have three.
The tenure of 13 MLCs in Uttar Pradesh will end on May 5. BJP with its allies can have a maximum of 10 MLCs and SP may have three.
The last date of nomination for MLC elections is March 11.
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Shinde and his loyalist MLAs have been staying in a hotel in Surat since Monday night - hours after the results of the MLC polls in Maharashtra were declared.
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Maharashtra BJP president Chandrakant Patil said his party has got nothing to do with political developments in the ruling Shiv Sena, whose minister Eknath Shinde has gone incommunicado along with some MLAs.
For the ruling BJP, which came back to power with a two-third majority in the recently concluded assembly elections, it was an opportunity to make itself the single-largest party in the House, and thereby enjoy a majority in both Houses of Uttar Pradesh Legislature.
These seats are spread across 35 local authorities' constituencies. The biennial poll was earlier planned on two dates but now it will be conducted together on April 9. Counting will take place on April 12.
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Of the 90 candidates trying their luck, 89 are male and the lone female contender is Congress' Gayathri Shanthe Gowda. Voter turnout was more than 99 per cent.
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