<span style="color: #222222;">Senior BJP leader Eknath Khadse  said he is keen to represent his party in the Maharashtra Legislative Council, nine seats of which fell vacant on April 24.<br />''<br />''The Election Commission had, on Friday, said polls to the nine seats, which were pushed back earlier due to the novel coronavirus outbreak, will be held before May 27.<br />''<br />''Khadse said that he has conveyed this wish to the seniors in my party.<br />''<br />''Khadse, one of the state BJP's senior-most leaders, has been out in the cold for the past few years after he was made to resign from the previous Devendra Fadnavis cabinet over several allegations.<br />''<br />''He was denied a ticket from Muktainagar seat in the October Assembly polls last year, and his daughter who was fielded instead lost.</span><br />