Maharashtra Election 2024: With solely 10 days left for the Maharashtra meeting elections, the campaigning has gained momentum with all eyes on battles between households. The November 20 voting for the 288 meeting seats will see brothers, cousins and father-children within the fray, with members of the identical household taking up one another in some seats.
The principle problem is for Ajit Pawar who rebelled in opposition to his uncle Sharad Pawar and led the break up of the NCP. Now, Yugendra Pawar, the candidate of the Sharad Pawar-led NCP (SP), will tackle his uncle and Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar within the Baramati seat. Since Baramati has been a stronghold of the Pawar household with Ajit successful the seat seven occasions, the battle has turned fascinating.
From the Anushakti Nagar seat, senior Maharashtra chief and former minister Nawab Malik’s daughter is contesting on the NCP ticket whereas Nawab Malik himself is contesting on the occasion ticket from the Mankhurd Shivaji Nagar.
Within the Karjat-Jamkhed meeting seat, one other nephew of Ajit Pawar is within the fray because the NCP (SP) candidate. From this seat, Rohit Pawar is taking up BJP’s Ram Shinde. Rohit Pawar is the grand-nephew of Sharad Pawar.
Within the Kannad constituency of Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, unbiased candidate Harshwardhan Jadhav is working in opposition to his estranged spouse, Sanjana Jadhav, who’s the Shiv Sena candidate and the daughter of BJP chief and former Union minister Raosaheb Danve. Additionally, Sanjana Jadhav’s brother Santosh Danve is contesting from Bhokardan in Jalna because the BJP candidate.
Congress candidates Amit Deshmukh and Dhiraj Deshmukh, sons of former state chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, are within the ballot race from Latur Metropolis and ajoining Latur Rural seats, respectively.
Equally, Nitesh Rane and Nilesh Rane, sons of BJP MP and former Maharashtra chief minister Narayan Rane, are within the fray from Kudal and Kankavli constituencies as Shiv Sena and BJP nominees, respectively.
Whereas sitting Shiv Sena (UBT) sitting MLA Aaditya Thackeray is re-contesting from Worli, his maternal cousin Varun Sardesai is contesting from Vandre (Bandra) East meeting seat on the occasion’s ticket. Aaditya’s cousin Amit Thackeray, the son of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena head Raj Thackeray, is contesting from neighbouring Mahim seat in Mumbai.
Former Maharashtra minister Ganesh Naik is contesting from Airoli seat as a BJP candidate, whereas his son Sandeep is within the fray from the neighbouring Belapur constituency as NCP (SP) candidate.
Maharashtra minister Vijaykumar Gavit and his daughter and former MP Heena Gavit are additionally within the ballot race. Whereas senior Gavit is contesting because the BJP candidate from Nandurbar seat, his daughter is within the fray from neighbouring Akkalkuwa constituency as an unbiased.
NCP minister Chhagan Bhujbal is contesting from Yevala, whereas his nephew and former MP Sameer Bhujbal is within the fray from the Nandgaon seat as an unbiased.
BJP’s Mumbai president Ashish Shelar is within the fray from Mumbai’s Vandre (Bandra) West, a constituency recognized to be the house of a number of Bollywood personalities, whereas his brother and occasion candidate Vinod Shelar is contesting from Malad West. (With company inputs)
