Overview
- The BJP’s central election committee cleared Ramdas Athawale, Vinod Tawde, Maya Chintaman Ewenate and Ramrao Vadkule as candidates from Maharashtra.
- Seven seats are up for the biennial Rajya Sabha polls in the state, with counting scheduled the same day as voting on March 16.
- Within the Mahavikas Aghadi, seat-sharing talks remain unresolved as NCP (SP) leaders Supriya Sule and Jayant Patil met Uddhav Thackeray at Matoshree.
- Sources say the NCP (SP) proposed Sharad Pawar as a joint candidate to signal unity and bolster the opposition’s strength in the upper house.
- Sharad Pawar’s current Rajya Sabha term ends on April 2, intensifying deliberations as the nomination deadline nears.