This checklist comes 2 days after the primary checklist with 48 candidates was issued. (Representational)
Mumbai:
The Congress on Saturday launched its second checklist of 23 candidates for the November 20 Maharashtra Meeting elections, fielding a “sturdy” contender in opposition to state Bharatiya Janata Celebration President Chandrashekhar Bawankule.
Bawankule, who’s recontesting Kamthi seat in Nagpur district – which he had bagged in 2004, 2009 and 2014 until he was dropped in 2019, will lock horns with Suresh Y. Bhoyar, a former President of the Nagpur Zila Panchayat.
Equally, in Savner in Nagpur district, the Congress has fielded Anuja S. Kedar, the spouse of former minister and five-term MLA Sunil C. Kedar, who was convicted in a graft case and disqualified. The daughter of the legendary cricket administrator and former Maharashtra Speaker SK Wankhede, whose title adorns the BCCI stadium in Mumbai, Kedar had filed her nomination papers as an Unbiased, however will now contest on a Congress ticket.
The Congress’ second checklist comes two days after the primary checklist with 48 candidates was issued because the social gathering was purportedly in a tug-of-war with Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) ally Shiv Sena-UBT over sure seats within the Vidarbha area.
The others figuring in Saturday’s checklist additionally embrace Rajesh Manavatkar (Bhusawal), Swati Wakekar (Jamod), Mahesh Gange (Akot), Shekhar Shende (Wardha), Girish Pandav (Nagpur South), Pooja Thavker (Bhandara), Dalip Banson (Arjuni-Morgaon), Rajkumar Puram (Amgaon), Vasant Purke (Ralegaon), Anil Balasaheb Mangulkar (Yavatmal), Jitendra Moghe (Arni), Sahebrao Kamble (Umarkhed), Kailas Gorantyal (Jalna), and Madhukar Deshmukh (Aurangabad East).
Vijay Patil will contest from Vasai, Kalu Bhadeliya from Kandivali East, Yashwant Singh from Charkop, Ganesh Kumar Yadav from Sion-Koliwada, Hemant Ogle from Srirampur, Abhay Okay. Salunkhe from Nilanga, and Ganpatrao Patil for Shiro).
Maharashtra Congress Legislative Celebration Chief Vijay alias Balasaheb Thorat is prone to name on NCP supremo Sharad Pawar and SS-UBT chief Uddhav Thackeray this afternoon to finalise the remaining seat-sharing ratio, together with the variety of seats that will likely be allotted to smaller allies, because the final date for submitting nominations (October 29) approaches.
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