04 May,2024 04:17 PM IST | Satara | mid-day online correspondent
Udayanraje Bhosale. File Pic
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Udayanraje Bhosale, on Saturday said that the main plank of the Lok Sabha elections 2024 was development and he would win from Satara district in Maharashtra, reported the PTI.
Udayanraje Bhosale is a direct descendant of legendary warrior king Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.
In an interview to the PTI, he also emphasised the need for a stable government and cited this factor as the base on which the Prime Minister Narendra Modi dispensation had introduced a slew of welfare schemes for every segment of society.
"The major issue in the polls is development. The Congress was in power for 55 years. What happened? Only slogans were coined and nothing was implemented on the ground. However, under the Modi government, welfare schemes are reaching people. There is a stable government for 10 years," he said, reported the PTI.
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He also said that the ruling alliance in Maharashtra was working well to fulfill the aspirations of the people, while the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), comprising the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT), Congress and the Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP-SP), was inconsequential, the news agency reported.
Queried about having won the earlier elections in Maharashtra's Satara due to the name and goodwill of Sharad Pawar, Bhosale said that he had won because of the work he had done for people and no other reason, as per the PTI.
"I have never used the name of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. I live in a democracy as a common man. If I am from a certain family so be it. When I go to people, I tell them I have completed development works costing Rs 10,000 crore," Udayanraje Bhosale asserted, according to the PTI.
Talking about his earlier stint with the Sharad Pawar founded party, Udayanraje Bhosale said that it was the NCP that had come and invited him, while he was keen on entering politics as an independent.
"Now the situation is such that in the six assembly segments in Satara Lok Sabha constituency, four are with the ruling alliance, while MVA won two simply due to division of votes," he said, a PTI report stated.
Udayanraje Bhosale said that Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj laid the foundation stone of democracy and administration based on welfare by keeping the aspirations and problems of people above everything else.
Hailing PM Modi as a visionary leader, he said that his rallies in Maharashtra would give the ruling alliance a huge boost.
On the other hand, there will be no sympathy voting for Uddhav Thackeray and Sharad Pawar due to splits in the Shiv Sena and Nationalist Congress Party, respectively, Udayanraje Bhosale claimed.
"What sympathy? They have not worked for development. They only give slogans. I am saying this with full responsibility. They only point fingers at others. It is all drama," he said in a swipe at the MVA.
Udayanraje Bhosale said that his victory was certain in this fight between "shishtachar" and the opposition's "bhrashtachar" and added the Mahayuti would win all six assembly segments in the state polls later this year.
(with PTI inputs)
