{"id":322782,"date":"2020-05-01T06:28:43","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T06:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=322782"},"modified":"2020-05-01T09:06:17","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T09:06:17","slug":"election-commission-grants-permission-to-hold-maharashtra-legislative-council-polls-before-may-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/election-commission-grants-permission-to-hold-maharashtra-legislative-council-polls-before-may-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Commission grants permission to hold Maharashtra Legislative Council polls on May 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-318071 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Screenshot_20191219-200620__01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/Screenshot_20191219-200620__01.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/Screenshot_20191219-200620__01-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/Screenshot_20191219-200620__01-768x468.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/Screenshot_20191219-200620__01-1024x624.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/Screenshot_20191219-200620__01-696x424.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/Screenshot_20191219-200620__01-1068x651.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/Screenshot_20191219-200620__01-689x420.jpg 689w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/>The Election Commission of India on Friday decided to hold elections for the Maharashtra Legislative Council on May 21, ending the current uncertainty in the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This came a day after Maharashtra governor BS Koshyari requested the Election Commission to hold elections in the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A statement from Raj Bhavan said that Koshyari requested the ECI to declare elections to the nine vacant seats of the Maharashtra Legislative Council &#8220;at the earliest&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The governor made the request to the EC to fill the nine seats that have been lying vacant since April 24, with a view to end the current uncertainty in the State.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Since Maharashtra CM is not a member of either house of the State Legislature, he needs to get elected to the the Council before May 27, 2020, the statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Election Commission had withheld the election process for these nine seats due to the coronavirus crisis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Thackeray was sworn in as chief minister on November 28 last year. He has to be a member of the upper house by May 28 or else he will cease to be the chief minister of Maharashtra.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Election Commission of India on Friday decided to hold elections for the Maharashtra Legislative Council on May 21, ending the current uncertainty in the state. This came a day after Maharashtra governor BS Koshyari requested the Election Commission to hold elections in the state. A statement from Raj Bhavan said that Koshyari requested the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":318071,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2100,1801,2014,2026],"tags":[9989,1467],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322782"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322782"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322787,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322782\/revisions\/322787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/318071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}