The Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Occasion (SCP) on Monday introduced its newest checklist of seven candidates for the upcoming Maharashtra meeting elections, prominently that includes Salil Deshmukh, the son of former Maharashtra Residence Minister Anil Deshmukh, who will contest from the Katol constituency.
The total checklist of candidates consists of:
1. Prabhakar Gharge from Man (Constituency No. 258)
2. Salil Anil Deshmukh from Katol (Constituency No. 48)
3. Vaibhav Sadashiv Patil from Khanapur (Constituency No. 286)
4. Arunadevi Pisal from Wai (Constituency No. 256)
5. Ramesh Thorat from Dand (Constituency No. 199)
6. Sharad Med from Pusad (Constituency No. 81)
7. Sandeep Bedse from Sindkheda (Constituency No. 8)
This announcement follows the get together’s earlier launch on Sunday, the place the NCP (SCP) revealed its third checklist of candidates for 9 seats, which included actor Swara Bhaskar’s husband, Fahad Ahmad. Ahmad, beforehand the state president of the Samajwadi Occasion youth wing, has joined the NCP (SCP) and can contest from the Anushakti Nagar seat. He’ll face off in opposition to Sana Malik, the daughter of former minister Nawab Malik, who was arrested in February 2022 by the Enforcement Directorate for allegedly usurping a property in Kurla with assistance from fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim’s sister.
Nawab Malik, who served because the sitting MLA from Anushakti Nagar, was launched on bail final yr and subsequently allied with the Ajit Pawar faction, though he was not renominated, seemingly because of objections from the BJP, which is his get together’s ally.
Jayant Patil, the Maharashtra unit chief of the NCP (SCP), introduced that the get together has now declared candidates for a complete of 76 seats, with eleven of those candidates being girls. Among the many notable names, Dnyayak Patni, the son of the late BJP MLA Rajendra Patni, will contest from the Karanja seat in Washim district. Rajendra Patni had received the meeting elections in 2014 and 2019 on a BJP ticket however handed away in February this yr. His son opted to affix the NCP (SCP) as a substitute of continuous with the BJP.
Different candidates introduced embrace Atul Wandile from Hinganghat in Wardha, Ramesh Bang from Hingna in Nagpur, Rahul Kalate from Chinchwad, Ajit Gavhane from Bhosari in Pune, Mohan Jagtap from Majalgaon, Rajesaheb Deshmukh from Parli in Beed, and Siddhi Ramesh Kadam from the Mohol seat in Solapur.
The polls for the 288-member Maharashtra meeting are set for November 20, with outcomes anticipated to be declared on November 23.