The candidate, Mayur Shinde, filed his nomination papers on December 30, the last day for submissions, as a candidate of Ajit Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party (NCP).

PM Modi’s letter was delivered today by foreign minister S Jaishankar, who represented India at the funeral of Khaleda Zia.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday stressed on the mantra of reform, perform and transform at the 50th meeting of PRAGATI, which accelerated projects worth more than Rs 85 lakh crore over the past decade.