Sharad Pawar faction’s Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) released its first list for Maharashtra assembly elections on Thursday evening. It has 45 names. The party has given ticket to Yugendra Pawar from Baramati. He will contest against uncle Ajit Pawar. Anil Deshmukh has been nominated from Katol, Jitendra Awhad from Mumbra Kalwa and Jayant Patil from Islampur seat. NCP is part of Mahavikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance with Sharad, Congress-Shiv Sena Uddhav. On October 23, the three parties had announced to contest on 85-85-85 seats. 18 seats were said to be given to other parties of I.N.D.I.A block including Samajwadi Party, SWP and CPI (M). There is still a problem on 15 seats. See the first list of NCP (Sharad), 45 names, 65 names in the first list of Shiv Sena (UBT)
On the evening of 23 October, Shiv Sena (UBT) released the first list of 65 candidates. Uddhav’s son Aditya Thackeray has been made a candidate from Worli. Kedar Dighe has been given ticket against Chief Minister Eknath Shinde from Kopri Pachpakhadi. The Thackeray faction has given ticket to former MLA Rajan Teli from Sawantwadi against Education Minister Deepak Kesarkar. Suresh Bankar has been fielded from Sillod against Cabinet Minister Abdul Sattar. 3 women have been given tickets in the list of Shiv Sena (UBT). Five seats are for SC and 3 seats are for ST. Shiv Sena (UBT) has released the first list in Maharashtra Mahavikas Aghadi (MVA). The list of Congress and NCP (SP) is yet to come. Read the full news… 182 names announced in Mahayuti so far
23 October: NCP Ajit faction’s first list includes 38 candidates
NCP Ajit Pawar faction released the first list for Maharashtra assembly elections on 23 October. It had names of 38 candidates. Maharashtra Deputy CM Ajit Pawar will contest from Baramati. It comes under Baramati Lok Sabha seat. Baramati Lok Sabha seat has been Sharad Pawar’s traditional seat. His daughter Supriya Sule won from here this time. Supriya defeated Ajit Pawar’s wife Sunetra Pawar in the Lok Sabha elections. Read the full news… 22 October: Shiv Sena (Shinde faction)’s first list, 35 candidates announced
Late night of 22 October, Shiv Sena (Shinde faction) released the first list of 45 candidates. Chief Minister Eknath Shinde will contest from Kopdi Pachpakhadi. At the same time, Minister Uday Samant was given ticket from Ratnagiri. CM Eknath Shinde had rebelled against the then Uddhav government in June 2022. He became the Chief Minister with the support of BJP. In such a situation, this is the first assembly election under Shinde’s leadership. Read full news… 21 October: BJP released 99 names in the first list on October 21
BJP released the first list of 99 candidates on October 21 for the assembly elections. Of these, 6 seats are for ST and 4 seats are for SC. At the same time, women have been given tickets on 13 seats. At the same time, there are 10 candidates who will contest for the first time. Three current independent MLAs have also been given tickets. Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis will contest from Nagpur South-West and Maharashtra BJP President Chandrashekhar Bawankule will contest from Kamathi. Former Maharashtra CM Ashok Chavan’s daughter Srijaya Chavan has been given ticket from Bhokar and former Union Minister Raosaheb Danve’s son Santosh Danve has been given ticket from Bhokardan seat. Read full news… Single phase election on November 20, result on November 23
The term of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly is ending on November 26, 2024. In Maharashtra, Mahayuti i.e. Shiv Sena, BJP and NCP Ajit Pawar faction is in power. It will be a big challenge for the party to manage anti-incumbency and division of votes among 6 big parties. ……………………………………………………….. Read other news related to Maharashtra Assembly elections… Clock symbol will remain with Ajit faction in Maharashtra elections: Supreme Court said – write on banners and posters, matter is pending in court Just before the assembly elections to be held in Maharashtra next month, the Supreme Court on Thursday gave relief to the Ajit Pawar faction. The court said that Ajit faction’s Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) can use the ‘clock’ symbol in the upcoming Maharashtra assembly elections, but it will have to write in the election banners and posters that it is a matter of controversy and is pending in the court. Read full news…
