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  • Maharashtra MLC polls: Two applicants each and every of Shiv Sena and NCP, 4 of BJP win seats

    Via PTI

    MUMBAI: Two applicants each and every of the ruling coalition allies NCP and the Shiv Sena and 4 nominees of the opposition BJP on Monday nigh gained elections to the Maharashtra Legislative Council (MLC), mentioned an respectable.

    The entire 8 applicants secured the minimal quota of 26 votes each and every to make it to the Higher Area of the state legislature, mentioned the respectable.

    Chairman of Legislative Council and NCP candidate Ramraje Nimbalkar, Chief of Opposition within the Higher Area Pravin Darekar of the BJP and previous BJP minister and now NCP nominee Eknath Khadse simply bagged enough selection of first desire votes to publish wins.

    The general vote tally shall be introduced when the entire rounds of counting is over, the respectable mentioned.

    Each the applicants of the Shiv Sena — Sachin Ahir and Aamshya Padavi – additionally gained the election, whilst the 2 nominees of the Congress, which is a part of the ruling coalition MVA, did not protected the minimal quota of the primary desire vote.

    The BJP had fielded 5 applicants – Darekar, Ram Shinde, Uma Khapre, Shrikant Bharatiya and Prasad Lad – of which the primary 4 have already bagged the minimal quota of votes required to win the ballot.

    BJP MLA Atul Bhatkhalkar mentioned, “Darekar secured 29 votes of first desire, whilst Ram Shinde and Bharatiya secured 30 votes of first desire each and every. It manner, our extra votes of best 3 applicants at the record shall be transferred to our 5th candidate Prasad Lad.”

    “If you happen to rely the entire votes of first desire to the BJP applicants, we now have gained 133 votes. It manner, we now have gained extra votes than we secured within the Rajya Sabha elections (hung on June 10),” he mentioned. The BJP has 106 MLAs within the Maharashtra Legislative Meeting, whilst last votes for its applicants have both come from impartial MLAs, or the ones from small events or from different events.

    Balloting for the elections to ten vacant MLC seats used to be held between 9 am and four pm on the Legislature Advanced in south Mumbai. In all, 11 applicants – 5 of the BJP and two each and every of the Sena, the NCP and the Congress have been within the fray.

    The counting of votes started after a two-hour extend at round 7 pm.

  • Telephone tapping case: Eknath Khadse seems prior to Mumbai police to file observation as witness

    Via PTI

    MUMBAI: NCP chief Eknath Khadse on Thursday gave the impression prior to the Colaba police right here to file his observation as a witness within the case registered towards senior IPS officer Rashmi Shukla for alleged unlawful tapping of politicians’ telephones, an legit mentioned.

    Khadse reached the Colaba police station in south Mumbai round 11 am, the place his observation is being recorded through a police inspector-rank officer, he mentioned.

    The FIR towards Shukla was once registered on the Colaba police station in March beneath the Indian Telegraph Act and related sections of the Indian Penal Code, following a grievance through senior police officer, who accused her of getting put the telephone numbers of Khadse, a former BJP chief, and Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut beneath surveillance.

    The alleged unlawful telephone tapping had taken position when Shukla headed the State Intelligence Division (SID), police have mentioned.

    As consistent with the grievance, Khadse’s telephone was once allegedly tapped two times in 2019, when he was once with the BJP.

    He joined the NCP in October 2020. “Aside from Khadse, the telephone of Shiv Sena chief Sanjay Raut was once additionally tapped right through the formation of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) executive (in November 2019),” the police legit mentioned.

    According to the grievance lodged through Further Commissioner of Police (Particular Department), a case was once registered towards Shukla, he mentioned.

    “As investigation into the case is on, the Colaba police had referred to as Khadse to file his observation as a witness within the case.

    Accordingly, the NCP chief visited the police station, the place his observation is being recorded,” he mentioned.

    Shukla is at this time on central deputation and posted as further director normal of the Central Reserve Police Pressure (CRPF) in Hyderabad.

    The Pune police have additionally registered an FIR towards Shukla in reference to alleged unlawful tapping of the telephones of Congress chief Nana Patole when a BJP-led executive was once in energy within the state. Patole is now state Congress leader.