Finally, Uddhav Thackeray elected Maharashtra member of the legislative council
Mumbai: In a huge relief to the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi, Maharashtra Chief Minister and Shiv Sena President Uddhav Thackeray was elected unopposed as state Legistative Council member here on Thursday. Uddhav's election to the Council will provide stability to the 6-month-old Shiv Sena-Nationalist Congress Party-Congress alliance government in the state.
Thackeray, 59, has now become the second member from the state's numero uno political family to enter the state legislature.
In October 2019, his son became the first one to win the Assembly elections from Worli segment. He is now the Environment and Tourism Minister.
Besides senior Thackeray, eight others elected on Thursday included Sena's Dr Neelam Gorhe, Congress' Rajesh Rathod, NCP's Shashikant Shinde and Amol Mitkari.
From the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, those elected are Ranjitsinh Mohite-Patil, Pravin Datke, Gopichand Padalkar and Ramesh Karad. (IANS)
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