Left to proper: Uddhav Thackeray’s PA Milind Narvekar, NCP MLA Jitendra Ahwad and BJP MLA (Mumbai BJP chief) Ashish Shelar filed their nominations for the MCA’s apex council on Monday. (particular association)
On Monday, the final day for submitting nominations for numerous posts, BJP’s Mumbai chief Ashish Shelar and NCP chief Sharad Pawar fashioned a gaggle to contest the October 20 election.
Shelar will contest for the publish of MCA President whereas Amol Kale will contest for the publish of Vice President. There are extra large names of Shelar-Pawar group within the introduced listing. In the Maha Vikas Aghadi, former minister Jitendra Awhad will contest for the highest council publish, whereas Milind Narvekar, a private assistant to former Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray, has additionally been chosen from the identical group.
Vihang Sarnaik, the son of MLA Pratap Sarnaik and a key member of Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde’s camp, will contest for the publish of Mumbai Premier League T20 president from the Pawar-Shelar group. Interestingly, Pawar had backed former India batsman Sandeep Patil for the highest publish a couple of weeks in the past and in addition agreed to make use of his title as an endorsement for the group.
However, the veteran politician took a drastic U-turn on Monday to type a gaggle with Shelar. Ajinkya Naik, who has beforehand been a member of the Apex Council, will contest for the publish of secretary from each the teams. More than hundred candidates have filed nominations for numerous posts in MCA Apex Council.
“MCA has always surprised. No one expected that Pawar and Shelar would come together and form a group to contest the elections. Till last night it seemed that both the panels would contest the elections in the name of different leaders. But now things have completely changed after these two leaders came together and formed their panel,” mentioned an MCA candidate.
Scrutiny of nomination papers will probably be held on Tuesday whereas the final date for withdrawal of nominations is October 14.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
