India, April 27 -- Elections to the Maharashtra Medical Council (MMC) were conducted after a gap of 10 years on Sunday, with doctors from across the state voting for candidates for nine positions. The counting will be done at the Haffkine Institute at Parel on April 29, and the results will be declared on the same day.

The election was announced on February 20, weeks after a Supreme Court judgment ordered the completion of the election process in three months. The last election was held in 2016, and the council has been functioning under a state-appointed administrator since 2022.

According to the MMC website, there were around 60 candidates in the fray and four panels. The total number of eligible voters were more than 1,43,000 and the...