India, Oct. 14 -- Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday will campaign for Bharatiya Janata Party/BJP-Mahayuti candidates contesting the Pune division's graduates and teachers' constituencies of the Maharashtra Legislative Council (MLC) as the alliance steps up its outreach across western Maharashtra ahead of the October 23 elections.

Meanwhile, Kaustubh Gawade, the Mahayuti candidate for the teachers' constituency, has promised to push for concrete policy decisions and a separate administrative mechanism to reduce teachers' non-teaching workload, arguing that their time should be spent educating students rather than completing paperwork. "Teachers' valuable time should be used for students' educational progress instead of being s...