Luxury Hotel Stay For MLAs Ahead Of Key Maharashtra Council Polls
With 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 Vidhan Bhavan complex in south Mumbai where voting will take place from 9am to 4pm. Counting of votes will be taken up 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.
