Voting for the Aurangabad Graduates constituency in the Maharashtra Legislative Council will take place in eight districts of the region on December 1. MLC Satish Chavan is the candidate of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) comprising the Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress, against Shirish Boralkar of the BJP. A total of 35 candidates are in the fray. Amidst all of this chaos, Former Maharashtra minister Pankaja Munde who campaigned for BJP candidate Shirish Boralkar in a tweet said that she has developed COVID-19 symptoms.
Munde was in Hingoli district of Maharashtra's Marathwada region to campaign for BJP candidate Shirish Boralkar, who is contesting election from the graduates' constituency of the state Legislative Council a few days ago. In her twitter post she wrote, "I have a cold, cough and fever so I am isolating myslef as a responsible citizen." Earlier, she had accused the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government of stalling the schemes rolled out by the previous BJP-led dispensation in the state. The BJP leader said that the government led by her party worked for those who remained neglected previously.