Mumbai, Feb. 14 -- The Maharashtra Congress has nominated state Congress Working President Chandrakant D. Handore as its candidate for the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections on Wednesday.
He is expected to file his nomination papers on Thursday in a massive show of strength planned by the Congress and its various organizations, plus opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi allies like Shiv Sena (UBT) and the Nationalist Congress Party (SP).
Handore, 67, a Dalit face and a seasoned leader of the Congress party, has been a former Municipal Corporator, later Mayor of Mumbai, a two-time MLA, and a state minister for several years, while his wife Sangita Handore is a former BMC Municipal Corporator.
He has served as Vice President of the Maharashtra Congress...