Sena (UBT) leader Ambadas Danve, in a post on X, said that party chief Uddhav Thackeray has announced the nomination of Navandar, who heads the party’s Parbhani city unit.
हिंदुहदयसम्राट, शिवसेनाप्रमुख बाळासाहेब ठाकरे यांच्या आशीर्वादाने, पक्षप्रमुख उद्धवसाहेब ठाकरे यांच्या आदेशाने शिवसेना – उद्धव बाळासाहेब ठाकरे पक्षाचे परभणी महानगरप्रमुख
*श्री. डॉ. विवेक नावंदर*
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— Ambadas Danve (@iambadasdanve) May 31, 2026
Parbhani is the only municipal corporation that has a mayor from the Shiv Sena (UBT).
Elections to 16 legislative council seats from the Local Self-Government bodies and a bypoll from the Nagpur self-government body are scheduled for June 18.
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June 1 is the last date for filing nominations for the legislative council polls. Scrutiny of nominations will take place on June 2, and the last date for withdrawal is June 4. Votes will be counted on June 22.
The 16 local self-government bodies constituencies going to the polls include Solapur, Ahmednagar, Thane, Jalgaon, Sangli-Satara, Nanded, Yavatmal, Pune, Bhandara-Gondia, Raigad-Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg, Nashik, Wardha-Chandrapur-Gadchiroli, Amravati, Osmanabad-Latur-Beed, Parbhani-Hingoli, and Aurangabad-Jalna.The Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) on Friday finalised the seat-sharing agreement for the polls, with the Congress contesting the highest eight of 17 seats, followed by the Shiv Sena (UBT) with six seats and NCP (SP) three.
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The Uddhav Thackeray-led party will contest Raigad, Jalgaon, Parbhani-Hingoli, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Nanded and Nashik.
Elected members of local governing bodies form the electorate for the election, necessitated by the expiry of the six-year term of the incumbent MLCs.
