Nawab Malik on Tuesday filed his nomination from the Mankhurd Shivaji Nagar Assembly constituency as Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) candidate for the upcoming Maharashtra Assembly election 2024, reported the ANI.

After filing the nomination, Nawab Malik told ANI, "I filed a nomination from Mankhurd Shivaji Nagar Vidhan Sabha constituency as an NCP candidate. I had filed the form as an Independent candidate also. But the party has sent the AB form and we submitted it at 2.55 pm and now I am the official candidate of NCP."