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Anil Deshmukh has been representing this seat since 1995. Interestingly, the party had made the experienced leader its candidate from Katol in its first list of 45 candidates. However, the NCP (SP) changed its candidate and fielded his son Salil Deshmukh from the constituency.
The Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) on Monday released its fourth list of seven candidates for the Maharashtra Assembly elections. The party has fielded Salil Deshmukh, son of former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh, from Katol assembly constituency in Nagpur. Anil Deshmukh has been representing this seat since 1995. Interestingly, the party had made the experienced leader its candidate from Katol in its first list of 45 candidates. However, the NCP (SP) changed its candidate and fielded his son Salil Deshmukh from the constituency.
The other names are Prabhakar Gharge from Mann, Vaibhav Patil from Khanapur, Aruna Pisal from Wai, Sharad Mend from Pusad, Sandeep Bedse from Sindkheda and Ramesh Thorat from Daund constituency. Deshmukh, who served as the state home minister in the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi coalition government, was arrested in 2021 in a corruption case filed against him by the CBI.
Former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh, in a letter to then Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on March 20, 2021, accused Deshmukh of directing police officials, including Antilia case accused Sachin Waze, to collect ₹100 crore from dance bars across Mumbai. Was accused. Deshmukh was arrested by the ED in November 2021 on charges of money laundering. In October 2022, he was granted bail by the Bombay High Court. The High Court granted bail to Deshmukh in the case registered by the CBI after two months.
