Sharad Pawar will support candidates elected for Rajya Sabha Election
Sharad Pawar was talking to reporters after meeting representatives of some Brahmin community organizations in Pune on Saturday.
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Sunday said his party would support Sambhajiraje Chhatrapati or any other candidate chosen by the Shiv Sena in the elections to the six Rajya Sabha seats in Maharashtra.
Sambhajiraje, a member of the Kolhapur royal family and a descendant of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, was earlier a President-nominated member of the Upper House of Parliament. He recently announced that he would contest the next election to the Rajya Sabha as an independent candidate, and appealed to all parties to support him. Responding to a question from journalists here on Saturday, Pawar said that two years back we had demanded two seats (in Rajya Sabha) and we got it but, this time we will get one seat.
The NCP chief said that after supporting our candidate, we will have votes to support a Shiv Sena candidate. They can choose Sambhajiraje or any other candidate, we will support the candidate chosen by Shiv Sena. Some senior Shiv Sena leaders had recently said that the party would field another candidate in the coming Rajya Sabha elections, a move that could hamper Sambhajiraje Chhatrapati's prospects.
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