Chandrashekhar Bawankule, the head of the state BJP, is running from Kamthi, which is also in the Nagpur district, among the other heavyweights.
Mumbai,New Delhi :
One of the prominent names on the BJP’s initial list of candidates for the Maharashtra Assembly elections scheduled for November 20 is Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis. There are 99 names on the list, which was made public this afternoon. The BJP is expected to run for about 160 of the 288 seats in the Maharashtra Assembly. Its allies Shiv Sena and the Ajit Pawar-led NCP are running for the remaining seats.
The Nagpur West Assembly seat, which Mr. Fadnavis has held since 2009, is where he is running. Union Minister Nitin Gadkari serves as the Lok Sabha representative for Nagpur, a BJP stronghold. The BJP controls four of the six Assembly segments that make up the Lok Sabha seat.
Chandrashekhar Bawankule, the head of the state BJP, is running from Kamthi, which is also in the Nagpur district, among the other heavyweights. In Bhokardan, the BJP is running Santosh, the son of Union Minister Raosaheb Danve, while incumbent state minister Sudhir Mungantiwar is running from the Ballarpur seat.
Sreejaya Chavan, the daughter of former Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan, who defected from the Congress to the BJP prior to the Lok Sabha elections and is currently a Rajya Sabha member, is the candidate the BJP has put forward in Bhokar.
Ram Kadam, the candidate and three-time lawmaker, will run again from Mumbai’s Ghatkopar West constituency, replacing Mihir Kotecha, the current Mulund MLA.
State Minister Chandrakant Patil will run from Kothrud, while Mumbai-based BJP leader Ashish Shelar will run from Vandre West. In Malad West, Mr. Shelar’s brother will run for office after receiving a poll pass as well. Nitesh Rane, the son of veteran leader and former Union Minister Narayan Rane, is running in Kankavli, while Subhash Deshmukh is the BJP’s candidate in Solapur.
Thirteen female candidates, six members of Scheduled Tribes, and four members of Scheduled Castes make up the BJP’s initial list for the Maharashtra election.
Notably, the BJP has run numerous incumbent MLAs in Maharashtra again. In state and national polls, the party is known to unseat the majority of incumbent officials in order to counteract the impacts of anti-incumbency sentiment and provide voters a new choice. It appears to be confident ahead of what looks to be a difficult poll campaign, as seen by its choice to support incumbent MLAs in this election.
Only 17 of the 48 parliamentary seats in Maharashtra were won by the BJP-Sena-NCP alliance in the Lok Sabha elections earlier this year, which was a setback. In the politically important state, the Maha Vikas Aghadi bloc, which consists of the Congress, the Sharad Pawar-led NCP, and the Shiv Sena (UBT), put on a spectacular display and won 30 seats.
Maharashtra’s 2019 state elections saw a resounding victory for the BJP-Shiv Sena coalition. However, a dispute over the Chief Minister’s position caused the partners to split up, and Uddhav Thackeray joined forces with the Congress and NCP to establish the administration. Sena leader Eknath Shinde led a revolt that overthrew this government, and he later became the new chief minister. The Sena and the NCP have divided between the 2019 and the next election, which has changed the political landscape in Maharashtra and increased the excitement of current one.