Municipal elections are to be held in Maharashtra on 15 January. The last date for withdrawal of nominations for these elections was January 2. After this, it is being claimed that even before the elections, Mahayuti has won unopposed on 68 seats of the municipal body. At the same time, opposition parties have alleged that the ruling Mahayuti used threats and money to remove the candidates from the elections.
BJP leader Keshav Upadhyay claimed that 68 candidates of BJP and Mahayuti have been elected unopposed. This shows the growing strength of the party in urban local bodies.
He said that BJP in this Of the 44 candidates in the fray, the highest are from Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation in Thane district, followed by Pune, Pimpri Chinchwad, Panvel, Bhiwandi, Dhule, Jalgaon and Ahilyanagar.
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BJP claims- The next mayor of Pune will be from BJP
BJP from Ward No. 35 of Pune Candidates Manjusha Nagpure and Shrikant Jagtap were elected unopposed, as their opponents withdrew their nomination papers. Both of them were also elected from the same ward between 2017 and 2022.
Union Ministers and Senior BJP Leader Muralidhar Mohol said that the next mayor of Pune will be from his party. Mohol claimed, ‘Our target is 125 seats, of which we have already won two, so 123 seats are left. Two seats have been won unopposed. This is proof of the good governance of our party.‘
22 candidates of Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena have been elected unopposed, while Ajit Pawar’s NCP has won the elections unopposed on two seats.
Shiv Sena on Friday claimed that five of its candidates have been elected unopposed in the 131-member Thane Municipal Corporation. The party claimed that the Bhiwandi-Nizampur Municipal Corporation (Nijampur Municipal Corporation) in Thane district of MaharashtraBNMC) After scrutiny of nomination papers for elections, six BJP The candidates have been elected unopposed.
Three Shiv Sena candidates and one BJP candidate have been dropped from their nomination papers after scrutiny of nomination papers for the Kalyan Dombivali Municipal Corporation elections in Thane district, an official said on Thursday. The candidate was declared unopposed.
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Opposition raised questions
The opposition has raised questions over the Mahayuti candidates being elected unopposed. Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut claimed that the returning officer was instructed to withdraw the nominations till late night. Sanjay Raut has accused him of misusing government machinery.
They X While posting on claimed, ‘All returning officers have been instructed that if an application for withdrawal of nomination comes at any time of the night, it should be recorded as jammed before 3 o’clock. A friend of mine who was involved in this process just called me and told me that when he said that it would be wrong to do so, he immediately got a call from the Guardian Minister, who threatened or requested us to follow whatever our local MLA said.‘
Raut further said, ‘On one hand, by giving Rs 5 crore each to the opposition candidates, forcing them to withdraw their names and getting their people elected unopposed, and on the other hand, doing such things! This mob rule is being run in the name of democracy. One day, there will be a public revolt here too like in Nepal and Bangladesh.‘
At the same time, Raj Thackeray’s party Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) leader Avinash Jadhav said, ‘If you want to win even before voting, then why conduct elections? Both the ruling parties should divide it among themselves. Democracy has ended in India and the state. He chose the weak candidates of the opposition and got his work done.‘
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