{"id":332953,"date":"2022-06-07T18:04:27","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T12:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=332953"},"modified":"2022-06-07T18:38:07","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T13:08:07","slug":"maharashtra-rajya-sabha-polls-owiaisi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/politics\/maharashtra-rajya-sabha-polls-owiaisi\/","title":{"rendered":"Maharashtra Rajya Sabha polls: BJP, Shiv Sena trying to win over independent MLAs, smaller parties, Owaisi says MVA leaders should contact AIMIM if they want support"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The BJP and the Shiv Sena are trying hard to win over Independent MLAs and smaller parties ahead of the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections in Maharashtra. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the upcoming Maharashtra Rajya Sabha polls, the three votes of Hitendra Thakur-led Bahujan Vikas Aghadi (BVA) and the stands of Akhilesh Yadav\u2019s Samajwadi Party (SP) and Asaduddin Owaisi\u2019s AIMIM will be crucial during the Rajya Sabha elections in Maharashtra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Talking to the reporters in Mumbai\u2019s Nanded, the AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi claimed no one from the rulin MVA in Maharashtra has contacted them for support in the upcoming elections to six Rajya Sabha seats from the state. If they want AIMIM support, they should contact him, he said. Aurangabad MP Imtiaz Jaleel, who is the state chief of AIMIM, said that the MVA first has to approach the party before knowing its stand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After holding a meeting in Nanded on Monday, the AIMIM did not come up with any decision to support MVA or the BJP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the 288-member Maharashtra Legislative Assembly, the BVA has three members, followed by two each from AIMIM and SP, while the MVA has one member.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, the Shiv Sena MLAs have been moved to a resort and the MLAs of Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) constituents – the Nationalist Congress Party and the Congress – will also be shifted to a resort as the ruling coalition ringfences its MLAs before the voting to the upper house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the upcoming Rajya Sabha polls, the BJP has fielded 3 candidates\u2014Union minister Piyush Goyal, Anil Bonde and Dhananjay Mhadik\u2014and the Shiv Sena two candidates\u2014spokesperson Sanjay Raut and Sanjay Pawar. While the NCP and the Congress of the ruling alliance have one candidate each\u2014former Union minister Praful Patel and Imran Pratapgadi respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the 288-member Maharashtra Legislative Assembly, the Bahujan Vikas Aghadi has three members, followed by two each from AIMIM and SP, while the MVA has one member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":332980,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"#MaharashtraRajyaSabhaPolls: BJP, Shiv Sena trying to win over independent MLAs, smaller parties, Owaisi says MVA leaders should contact AIMIM if they want support\n#BJPvsShivSena #Owaisi ","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4,125714],"tags":[39181,616,86,133145,99040,133157,779],"yst_prominent_words":[39180,6035,3849,20871,6319,6313,14765,14784,9326,14768,14826,18610,11507,83491],"ppma_author":[140550],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2022\/06\/07174259\/maharashtra-rajyasabha-polls.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140550,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"mohammad-javed","display_name":"Javed","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c07f6f652d23f05d19bedb5b9dd285e9?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332953"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=332953"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=332953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}