Mumbai: Former Maharashtra MLC Rajendra Jain on Monday filed his nomination as the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) candidate for the Rajya Sabha byelection scheduled on June 18.
The bypoll has been necessitated due to the resignation of Deputy Chief Minister Sunetra Pawar, who joined the state government after the death of her husband and then Deputy CM Ajit Pawar in a plane crash at Baramati in Pune in January.
Rajya Sabha members Praful Patel and Parth Pawar, Maharashtra NCP president and Lok Sabha member Sunil Tatkare, and state minister Chhagan Bhujbal accompanied Jain during the filing of his nomination papers.
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Ministers Ashish Shelar (BJP) and Bharat Gogawale (Shiv Sena) from the Mahayuti alliance and several NCP legislators were also present.
