Political parties submit candidate names for nominated corporator posts in Kolhapur Municipal Corporation

Kolhapur: Submission of candidates for the post of nominated corporators in KMC was conducted on Tuesday, with Congress and BJP filing three each, and Shiv Sena filing two. At present, Congress has 34 corporators in Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC), BJP has 26, Shiv Sena 15, NCP four, while Shiv Sena (UBT) and Jan Surajya Shakti have one corporator each. According to the math, Congress and BJP had the opportunity to put forward preferences for three nominated corporators, whereas Shiv Sena was able to select two. Accordingly, from BJP, applications from Prof Jayant Patil, BJP metropolitan president Vijay Jadhav, and Sunil Wadkar were submitted to KMC additional commissioner Ravikant Adsul for the post of nominated corporator. From Shiv Sena, former corporator Ratnesh Shirolkar and Prasad Sujit Chavan filed their nominations on Tuesday. On behalf of Congress party, nominations were filed by former corporator Rahul Mane, Sunil Modi, and Mushtaq Malbari. Modi is from Shiv Sena (UBT), but got a nomination from Congress. Adsul said, "The general body meeting of KMC is on Feb 20. The municipal commissioner will recommend names for the post of nominated corporators before the same. After the approval of the general body, the names will be announced." Meanwhile, BJP decided to give a term of 15 months each for these nominated corporators. After the Mayor's post was divided into smaller tenures, the nominated corporator term of five years is likely to be divided into four terms. Earlier, addressing the media on Monday, state minister Chandrakant Patil had said, "We are going to give a term of 15 months for nominated corporators so that maximum office-bearers can get the opportunity. We are considering giving an opportunity to activists from minority castes as well."