27 in fray for Amravati teachers’ MLC election

Amravati: Twenty-seven candidates are in the fray for one seat to Maharashtra Legislative Council from

Amravati

division teachers’ constituency, which is going to polls on December 1.

On the last day of withdrawals on Tuesday, one of the 28 candidates, an independent Sayyad Rizwan Sayyad Feroz, withdrew his nomination.

The 27 in fray include sitting MLC Shrikant Deshpande of Shiv Sena, Dr Nitin Dhande of BJP, Dilip Nimbhorkar of Lokbharti, Anil Kale of Baliraja Party and others.

All others are independents representing various teachers organizations. They are Abhijit Deshmukh, Arvind Tatte, Avinash Borde of Vijucta, Aalam Tanvir Sayyad Nizam Ali, Upendra Patil, Prakash Kalpande, Satish Kale, Kiran Sarnaik, Nilesh Gawande, Mahesh Daware, Dipankar Telgote, Pravin alias Pandurang Vidhale, Rajkumar Shriram Appa Bonkule, Chandrashekhar alias Shekhar Bhoyar, Mushtaq Ahmed Rehmaan Shah, Mohammad Shakil Abdul Ajij Quereshi, Vinod Meshram, Sharadchandra Hinge, Shrikrushna Thakare, Vikas Sawarkar, Sunil Pawar, Sangita Sachindra Shinde-Bonde, the only woman in the fray from Shikshak Sangharsh Sanghatana, and Sanjay Asole.

The constituency is spread over five districts of Amravati division — Amravati, Akola, Washim, Buldhana and Yavatmal. It has 35,622 voters, including 26,059 male, 9,562 female and one others. Amravati district has the largest 10,386 votes followed by Buldhana 7,484, Yavatmal 7,459, Akola 6,480 and Washim 3,814.

Total 28 candidates had filed 65 nominations. All but one were found valid.

Counting of votes will be held on December 3 at Vilasnagar godown on 14 tables for which duty has been assigned to five collectors and 170 officers, returning officer and divisional commissioner Piyush Singh said.