Earlier on Tuesday the BJP has nominated Union Power Minister Piyush Goyal as its candidate from Maharashtra for the Rajya Sabha election slated on June 11 and Goyal has filed his nomination for the RS polls at Vidhan Bhavan.


Meanwhile the Shiv Sena had last week nominated Sanjay Raut as the party nominee for polls to the Upper House of Parliament. Besides Raut, the other retiring Rajya Sabha MPs from Maharashtra are Ishwarlal Jain and Praful Patel ( NCP ), Vijay Darda and Avinash Pande ( Congress ), and Union Minister Piyush Goyal (BJP).


Sources have stated that the BJP and Shiv Sena have a chance to wrest at least one seat each from Congress and NCP given their present strength in the Legislative Assembly and the number of votes required to win election by a candidate is pegged at 42.


After considering their strength in the state Assembly, it seems unlikely that Congress or NCP will field more than one candidate and the combined strength of Sena (63) and BJP (122) in the House is 185, the strength of Congress and NCP is 42 and 41, respectively.


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