Lok Sabha elections: It's Shiv Sena vs Shiv Sena in 3 out of 6 seats in Mumbai

The battle lines have been set in six Mumbai seats for Lok Sabha elections 2024 The Uddhav Thackerayled Shiv Sena UBT and the Shiv Senaled by Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde will compete for three seatsIn one seat the Bharatiya Janata Party BJP and the Congress will square off while in two seats the traditional adversaries will square off the Shiv Sena UBT and the BJPThe six constituencies in Mumbai are Mumbai South Mumbai SouthCentral Mumbai North Mumbai NorthCentral Mumbai NorthEast Mumbai NorthWest These are among the 13 seats in Maharashtra that will go to polls in the fifth and final phase on May 20Mumbai South Mumbai SouthCentral and Mumbai NorthWest will see a fight between the two Senas while Mumbai NorthEast will be a BJP versus Shiv Sena UBT faceoffIn Mumbai South sitting MP Arvind Sawant of the Uddhav Thackeray will take on Yamini Jadhav of the Shindeled Sena Jadhav represents the Byculla assembly constituency in MumbaiThe Shive Sena UBT leader Anil Desai is pitted against Rahul Shewale of the Eknath Shindeled Sena in Mumbai SouthCentral While Desai was a Rajya Sabha member till recently Rahul Shewale is the sitting Lok Sabha MPAmol Kirtikar of the Uddhav Thackerays Shiv Sena UBT will take on Ravindra Waikar of the ruling Shiv Senaled by CM Shinde in Mumbai NorthWestRavinder Waikar who was earlier with the Shiv Sena UBT joined the Eknath Shinde camp recently He currently represents Jogeshwari East assembly constituency in MumbaiMeanwhile Congress MLA Varsha Gaikwad the partys Mumbai unit president will fight it out against noted lawyer Ujjwal Nikam fielded by the BJP in Mumbai NorthCentralUnion minister and senior BJP leader Piyush Goyal will take on Bhushan Patil of the Congress in Mumbai North While Gaikwad represents the Dharavi assembly segment in Mumbai Piyush Goyal is a Rajya Sabha memberIn Mumbai NorthEast BJPs Mihir Kotecha will fight against Shiv Sena UBT leader Sanjay Dina Patil Mihir Kotecha is the MLA from Mulund assembly constituency in MumbaiAfter filing her nomination form Varsha Gaikwad called on Uddhav Thackeray who promised his support to her saying she will be sent to Delhi as an MP It will be for the first time that Uddhav Thackeray will vote for a Congress candidate as his residence in Bandra comes under the Mumbai NorthCentral constituencyCongress and Shiv Sena have traditionally been political opponents in Mumbai till 2019Despite being opponents the two parties have been in tactical understanding on many occasions to get positions of power especially in the Mumbai civic body senior journalist Prakash Akolkar saidm according to the PTIAs per the picture emerging on ground the Shiv Sena UBT and the Congress cadre have gelled well on the groundVarsha Gaikwad visited all Shiv Sena shakhas in Mumbai NorthCentral constituency seeking blessings of the Uddhav Thackerayled cadre and in turn promising to be always available to them and fight for issues related to the city She was warmly welcomed everywherewith PTI inputs