Nagpur BJP Leader Now Congress Pick For Legislative Council Polls
NDTV
Ravindra Bhoyar will take on BJP nominee and former minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule
A day after he severed his 34-year-old association with BJP, Ravindra Bhoyar, a former RSS volunteer and sitting corporator from Nagpur, filed his nomination papers today as the Congress nominee from the local constituency for the upcoming polls to Maharashtra Legislative Council.
Mr Bhoyar will face off against BJP nominee and former minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule.
Mr Bhoyar's candidature for the upcoming polls was announced by Congress late last night.
The four-time corporator had been associated with BJP for the last 34 years. He had served as Deputy Mayor of Nagpur in 1997. His father Prabhakarrao Bhoyar had served as an RSS pracharak from 1949 to 1956 and was jailed during the Emergency. The Bhoyar senior had held various positions in the RSS, headquartered in Nagpur.
