Maharashtra Legislative Council elections: Mahayuti fields 17 candidates, voting on June 18

Mahayuti on Wednesday announced the names of 17 candidates for the upcoming Legislative Council elections in Maharashtra. There are candidates from BJP, Shiv Sena and NCP in this list. Voting will take place on June 18. In view of the Legislative Council elections, an important joint press conference of Mahayuti was organized in Mumbai. In this press conference, BJP leader and Cabinet Minister Ravindra Chavan announced the names of 17 candidates of Mahayuti. He said that there is proper coordination among all the constituent parties of Mahayuti and we are contesting the elections with full strength. He said that in the elections to be held on June 18, Mahayuti candidates will win all the 17 seats in the state with an overwhelming majority.

In view of the upcoming Legislative Council elections in Maharashtra, the BJP-Mahayutichi Journalist Parishad fell out. At this time, the names of 17 authorized candidates of BJP-Maha Yuthi for the elections were announced.

First preference voting in our local self-rule organization is authorized by BJP-Mahayutichya pic.twitter.com/h3b3FCN0N0

— Ravindra Chavan (@RaviDadaChavan) June 3, 2026

Announcement of names of 17 candidates of Mahayuti

	Constituency/District	Name of candidate
1	Wardha-Chandrapur-Gadchiroli	Arun Lakhani
2	Bhandara-Gondia	Avinash Brahmandkar
3	Maravati	Praveen Pote
4	Solapur	Rajendra Raut
5	Sangli-Satara	courageous step
6	Ahilyanagar (Ahmednagar)	Prajakta Tanpure
7	Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar-Jalna	Suhas Shirsat
8	Nanded	Amar Rajurkar
9	Dharashiv-Beed-Latur	Basavaraj Patil
10	Jalgaon	Nand Kishore Mahajan
11	Nagpur	Dr. Rajeev Potdar
12	thain	Rabindra Gate
13	Yavatmal	Drishyan Chaturvedi
14	Parbhani-Hingoli	Syed Khan
15	Nasik	Narendra Darade
16	Raigarh-Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg	Aniket Tatkare
17	Pune	Vikram Kakade

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