The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today released its third list of 25 candidates for the upcoming Maharashtra Assembly elections 2024, in which Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis’ personal assistant (PA) Sumit Wankhede has been fielded from Arvi seat. BJP has re-nominated sitting MLA Bharti Lavekar from Versova and Parag Shah from Ghatkopar East, although earlier there were speculations that the tickets of both might be cancelled.
BJP’s third list
Murtijapur (SC) – Harish Marotirao Pimple
Karanja – Sai Prakash Dahake
Teosa – Rajesh Shriram Wankhade
Morshi – Umesh (Chandu) Atmaramji Yawalkar
Arvi – Sumit Kishore Wankhede
Katol – Charansingh Babulalji Thakur
Savner – Ashish Raje Deshmukh
Nagpur Central – Praveen Prabhakarrao Datke
Nagpur West – Sudhakar Vitthalrao Kohale
Nagpur North (SC) – Dr. Milind Pandurang Mane
Sakoli – Avinash Anandrao Brahmankar
Chandrapur (SC) – Kishore Gajananrao Jorgewar
Amodi (ST) – Raju Narayan Todsam
Umarkhed (SC) – Kishan Maruti Wankhede
Deglur (SC) – Jitesh Raosaheb Antapurkar
Dahanu (ST) – Vinod Suresh Medha
Vasai – Sneha Premnath Dubey
Borivali – Sanjay Upadhyay
Versova – Bharti Hemant Lavekar
Ghatkopar East – Parag Kishorechandra Shah
Airoli – Suresh Ramchandra Das
Latur City – Archana Shailesh Patil Chakurkar
Malshiras (SC) – Ram Vitthal Satpute
Karad Answer – Manoj Bhimrao Ghorpade
Palus- Kadegaon – Sangram Sampatrao Deshmukh
Earlier on Saturday, the saffron party had released its second list with 22 names, while the first list had 99 names. Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and NCP chief Ajit Pawar on Friday said the Mahayuti allies are still in talks on 11 of the 288 assembly seats for the November 20 elections in the state. Pawar said that 10 percent of the seats allotted to his party will be kept for minority candidates.
Both the ruling Mahayuti alliance and the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), comprising Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray faction), NCP (Sharad Pawar faction) and Congress, are making massive efforts to win the upcoming Maharashtra Assembly elections. The BJP is a key member of the ruling Mahayuti alliance, which also includes Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde faction) and Ajit Pawar-led NCP.
