Ensure your vote would not flip invalid on account of some mistake: Fadnavis tells get together MLAs on RS polls eve

By PTI

MUMBAI: On the eve of elections to 6 Rajya Sabha seats in Maharashtra, senior BJP chief Devendra Fadnavis on Thursday held a gathering right here with the MLAs of his get together, the place he suggested them to make sure that their votes don’t flip invalid on account of some mistake.

The former chief minister was talking to the BJP MLAs at a resort. “You have been instructed on how to exercise the preferential voting for the Rajya Sabha. You will have to ensure that your vote will not become invalid due to some mistake,” the Leader of Opposition within the state Legislative Assembly stated.

“We have told you how to vote and you should do it accordingly,” he added.

Union Railway Minister and election in-charge for the BJP Ashwini Vaishnav was additionally current at this assembly.

Fadnavis, who examined detrimental for COVID-19 on Thursday, days after being discovered contaminated, joined the assembly and addressed the MLAs.

After greater than 20 years, Maharashtra will witness a contest within the Rajya Sabha polls as there are seven candidates within the fray for six seats.

Polling will probably be held on the Vidhan Bhavan, the state legislature complicated, right here between 9 am and 4 pm.

Union minister Piyush Goyal, Anil Bonde, Dhananjay Mahadik (BJP), Praful Patel (NCP), Sanjay Raut and Sanjay Pawar (Shiv Sena) and Imran Pratapgarhi (Congress) are within the fray for the six seats of the Upper House of Parliament.

The contest is for the sixth seat – between BJP’s Mahadik and Sena’s Pawar. Every vote has grow to be essential after BJP determined to discipline its third candidate within the election.

The BJP has 106 MLAs within the decrease home of the Maharashtra legislature whereas it claimed to have help of some impartial and small events as nicely.