He recently announced that he would contest the next election to the Rajya Sabha as an independent candidate, and appealed to all parties to support him. (Image: PTI/FILE)
Pawar was talking to reporters after meeting representatives of some Brahmin community organizations in Pune on Saturday
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NCP chief Sharad Pawar has said that his party will support Sambhajiraje Chhatrapati or any other candidate chosen by Shiv Sena in the upcoming elections for the six Rajya Sabha seats in Maharashtra. Pawar was talking to reporters after meeting representatives of some Brahmin community organizations in Pune on Saturday.
The tenure of six Rajya Sabha members from Maharashtra, Piyush Goyal, Vinay Sahasrabuddhe and Vikas Mahatme (all three from BJP), P Chidambaram (Congress), Praful Patel (NCP) and Sanjay Raut (Shiv Sena) ends on July 4. Scheduled for June 10. The BJP may win two Rajya Sabha seats with its tally of MLAs, while the ruling allies Shiv Sena, Congress and NCP in Maharashtra may win one seat each. So the contest will be for the sixth seat. Sambhajiraje, a member of the Kolhapur royal family and a descendant of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, was earlier a President-nominated member of the Upper House of Parliament.
He recently announced that he would contest the next election to the Rajya Sabha as an independent candidate, and appealed to all parties to support him. Responding to a question from reporters here on Saturday, Pawar said, “Two years ago, we had demanded two seats (in the Rajya Sabha) and we got it. But, this time we will get one seat. “After supporting our candidate, we will have votes to support a Shiv Sena candidate. They may choose Sambhajiraje or any other candidate, we will support the candidate chosen by Shiv Sena,” the NCP chief said.
Some senior Shiv Sena leaders had recently said that the party would field another candidate in the coming Rajya Sabha elections, a move that could hamper Sambhajiraje Chhatrapati’s prospects.
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