Shiv Sena today nominated its leader Sanjay Raut as a candidate for the Rajya Sabha election, for the third consecutive term, slated for June 11.
Sena ministers in the BJP-led government in Maharashtra, Subhash Desai and Diwakar Raote will be the party's nominees for the Legislative Council elections scheduled on June 10, the party announced here.
<img src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/2014/sep/22sanjay.jpg" alt="Sanjay Raut" width="650" height="433" />Sanjay Raut
Raut has been a party MP for two consecutive terms and his&nbsp;current term ends on July 4, 2016.
In Maharashtra, six RS seats are up for grabs while there&nbsp;are 10 vacancies in the Legislative Council.
Besides Raut, the other retiring Rajya Sabha MPs from&nbsp;Maharashtra are Ishwarlal Jain and Praful Patel (NCP), Vijay&nbsp;Darda and Avinash Pande (Congress), and Union minister Piyush&nbsp;Goyal (BJP).
The biennial elections to 57 seats in Rajya Sabha are&nbsp;necessitated as 55 members from 15 states are retiring between&nbsp;June and August.
As per the arithmetic, the BJP and Shiv Sena have a chance&nbsp;to wrest at least one seat each from Congress and NCP given&nbsp;their present strength in the Legislative Assembly.
The number of votes required to win election by a&nbsp;candidate is pegged at 42.
However, considering their strength in the Lower House, it&nbsp;seems unlikely that Congress or NCP will field more than one&nbsp;candidate.
The combined strength of Sena (63) and BJP (122) in&nbsp;the House is 185 while that of Congress and NCP at 42 and 41,&nbsp;respectively.
Rajya Sabha polls are held through open ballot wherein&nbsp;the members of the Legislative Assembly (excluding nominated&nbsp;MLA) have to display the preference of voting to the party&nbsp;whip.
The elections to 10 seats of Maharashtra Legislative&nbsp;Council will be held on June 10, in which, as per the given&nbsp;scenario, five seats are expected to be won by BJP, three by&nbsp;Congress and NCP collectively, and two by Shiv Sena.&nbsp;

Shiv Sena today nominated its leader Sanjay Raut as a candidate for the Rajya Sabha election, for the third consecutive term, slated for June 11.

Shiv Sena nominates Sanjay Raut for Rajya Sabha

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Shiv Sena today nominated its leader Sanjay Raut as a candidate for the Rajya Sabha election, for the third consecutive term, slated for June 11.

Shiv Sena nominates Sanjay Raut for Rajya Sabha

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