BJP releases list of star campaigners for Maharashtra assembly elections 2024

The Bharatiya Janata Party BJP on Saturday released a list of star campaigners for the Maharashtra assembly elections 2024The list includes the names of Prime Minister Narendra Modi Union Ministers JP Nadda Amit Shah Rajnath Singh Nitin Gadkari Shivraj Singh Chouhan Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath among other leadersCheck full list hereBJP releases a list of star campaigners for the Maharashtra assembly electionsThe list includes the names of PM Narendra Modi Union Ministers JP Nadda Amit Shah Rajnath Singh Nitin Gadkari Shivraj Singh Chouhan Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma UP CM Yogi Adityanath amonghellip pictwittercomTezHqpieeymdash ANI ANI October 26 2024Earlier The BJP has retained 71 sitting MLAs in the first list of 99 candidates for the forthcoming Maharashtra assembly elections 2024 and also fielded kin of some regional satraps including CongressturnedBJP politician Ashok Chavans daughterDeputy CM Devendra Fadnavis state BJP president Chandrashekhar Bawankule Assembly speaker Rahul Narwekar ministers Girish Mahajan Sudhir Mungantiwar and Chandrakant Patil are among the prominent faces feature in the first list released on October 26The list includes 13 women candidates The saffron party has retained 71 MLAs and dropped threeFadnavis is renominated from home turf Nagpur South West Narwekar from Colaba in south Mumbai and ministers Sudhir Mungantiwar Girish Mahajan and Chandrakant Patil from Ballarpur Jamner and Kothrud constituencies respectivelyMungantiwar had unsuccessfully contested the Lok Sabha election from Chnadrapur constituency which he lost to his nearest Congress rivalOut of 16 MLAs of BJP in Mumbai the party has renominated 14 in the first listThe list also includes Mumbai BJP president Ashish Shelar fielded from the Vandre West seat and senior party leader and Lok Sabha member Narayan Ranes son Nitesh Rane renominated from Kankavli constituency in coastal SindhudurgNotably Bawankule a minister in the erstwhile Devendra Fadnavisled government was denied a ticket in the 2019 elections from the Kamthi constituency he had represented for three terms He has been renominated from KamthiThe BJP has replaced the sitting MLAs from Chinchwad in Pune district Kalyan East in Thane district and Srigonda in Ahilyanagar districtIn some constituencies the BJP has allotted tickets to family members of satraps including Sulbha Gaikwad wife of sitting MLA Ganpat Gaikwad who is in jail for allegedly shooting at a rival politician in a police stationIn Mumbai the BJP has fielded its Mumbai unit chief Ashish Shelar from the Bandra West assembly segment for the third time while his brother Vinod Shelar will test the electoral waters from the Malad West seat Vinod will challenge sitting Congress MLA and former minister Aslam ShaikhSulbha Gaikwad will contest from the Kalyan east constituency Pratibha Pachpute will replace her husband Babanrao Pachpute from Srigonda segment in Ahilyanagar district Chinchwad MLA Ashwini Jagtap has been replaced by her brotherinlaw Shankar JagtapAshwini had won the bypoll from Chinchwad after the death of her husband and sitting MLA Laxman JagtapPerhaps the most highprofile candidate is Srijaya Chavan daughter of former Congress politician Ashok Chavan She will make her electoral debut from the Bhokar constituency represented by her father in Nanded districtChavan senior switched to the BJP on the eve of the Lok Sabha elections He is now a Rajya Sabha memberThe BJP has given Mahesh Baldi an independent MLA from Uran in Navi Mumbai a ticket for the Maharashtra assembly elections 2024Former Congressman and Independent MLA Prakash Awade has made way for his son Rahul Awade in IchalkaranjiAnuradha Chavan chairperson of the Phulambri APMC and member of the state BJP working committee has been nominated from the Phulambri constituency in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar district place of Haribhau Bagade who held the seat before being appointed as the Governor of RajasthanMLC Ram Shinde is fielded from the Karjat Jamkhed constituency Shinde will take on sitting MLA Rohit Pawar of NCP SP the grandson of Sharad PawarThe Maharashtra assembly elections 2024 to the 288member assembly will be held on November 20The BJP is looking to contest around 150 seats in the state but is involved in tough bargaining with its allies Chief Minister Eknath Shindeled Shiv Sena and Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawarled NCP