Senior Shiv Sena leader and Maharashtra minister Anil Parab on Tuesday said his party will field a second candidate in the coming Rajya Sabha polls, a move that could hamper the prospects of Sambhajiraje Chhatrapati. The leaders of the Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress -- constituents of the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi coalition -- will sit together and decide the strategy for the elections, Parab told reporters here.

'The MVA's (second) candidate will be from the Shiv Sena's quota, and the leaders will decide the strategy as to how to get that candidate elected. But I am confident that the second candidate of the Sena will be elected,' he said. The tenure of six Rajya Sabha members from Maharashtra -- Piyush Goyal, Vinay Sahastrabuddhe and Vikas Mahatme (all three from the BJP), P Chidambaram (Congress), Praful Patel (NCP) and Sanjay Raut (Shiv Sena) ends on July 4.