BJP’s third list for Maharashtra elections released, names of 25 candidates announced
Mumbai: Voting for Maharashtra assembly elections will be held on November 20 and the results will be declared on November 23. The Mahayuti alliance has so far announced candidates for 260 out of 288 seats. Candidates are yet to be fielded on 28 seats. Let us tell you that the Mahayuti includes BJP, Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena and Ajit Pawar’s NCP.
Bharatiya Janata Party has released its third list of 25 candidates for Maharashtra Assembly elections. In this way, BJP has announced a total of 146 candidates so far. It had announced the names of 99 candidates in the first list and 22 candidates in the second list. Apart from this, BJP has also made Santuk Marotrao Hambarde its candidate for the by-election to be held on Nanded Lok Sabha seat. By-election is being held on Nanded seat due to the sudden demise of Congress MP Vasantrao Chavan in August. Congress has made Ravindra Chavan, son of its late leader Vasantrao Chavan, as its candidate for the by-election.
The Mahayuti alliance has so far announced candidates for 260 out of 288 seats. Candidates are yet to be fielded on 28 seats. Let us tell you that the Mahayuti includes BJP, Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena and Ajit Pawar’s NCP. Apart from BJP’s 146 candidates, Shiv Sena has so far announced its candidates on 65 seats and NCP on 49 seats. On the other hand, the Maha Vikas Aghadi has so far announced its candidates on 259 seats and candidates are yet to be fielded on 29 seats. The MVA includes Congress, Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena UBT and Sharad Pawar’s NCPSP. Shiv Sena UBT has fielded candidates on 84 seats, Congress on 99 seats and NCPSP on 76 seats.
BJP has nominated Sudhakar Kohle from Nagpur-West Assembly seat of Maharashtra and Milind Pandurang Mane from Nagpur-North seat. Sanjay Upadhyay has been given the ticket in place of sitting MLA Sunil Rane from Borivali. BJP has given tickets to Harish Marotiappa Pimple from Murtijapur, Sai Prakash Dahake from Karanja, Rajesh Shriram Wankhede from Teosa and Umesh Yawalkar from Morshi, from Arvi Assembly seat the party has given tickets to Sumit Kishore Wankhede, Charan Singh Thakur from Katol, Ashish Deshmukh from Savner, Praveen Datke from Nagpur Central. Let us tell you that Sumit Wankhede is the personal assistant (PA) of Maharashtra’s Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.
The BJP has re-nominated sitting MLA Bharti Lavekar from Versova and Parag Shah from Ghatkopar East, though there was earlier speculation that the tickets of both could be cancelled.
