Maharashtra Parties Strategize Amid Legislative Council Elections

Ahead of Maharashtra's Legislative Council elections, political parties are adopting various strategies to secure votes, including moving MLAs to hotels and holding strategy meetings. With 12 candidates vying for 11 seats, the elections are crucial before upcoming state assembly polls. Cross-voting concerns loom large across party lines.

With the threat of cross-voting looming large, political parties in Maharashtra have moved their MLAs to hotels and are holding last-minute strategy meetings ahead of Friday's biennial elections to 11 Legislative Council seats for which 12 candidates are in the fray.

Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs), who form the electoral college for the polls, will gather in the Vidhan Bhavan complex in south Mumbai where voting will take place from 9am to 4pm. Counting of votes will begin at 5pm.

Eleven members of the upper house of the state legislature are retiring on July 27, and these high-stakes polls are being held to fill the vacancies.

To keep their MLAs together, political parties are organizing dinner meetings and arranging hotel stays for them ahead of the council elections, which are taking place just three months before the assembly polls in the state.