Maharashtra Assembly election: Congress names 48 candidates in first list

After deliberations for over several days with its Maha Vikas Aghadi MVA allies over seatsharing the Congress on Thursday October 24 came out with its first set of 48 names for the Maharashtra Assembly electionWhile party chief Nana Patole will fight from Sakoli in Bhandara districtLeader of Opposition in the Assembly Vijay Wadettiwar got a ticket from Brahmapuri in Chandrapur districtThe opposition party also fielded former ministers Nitin Raut and Balasaheb Thorat from Nagpur North and Sangamner respectivelyIn Mumbai sitting legislator Aslam Shaikh has been retained for the Malad constituency while former minister Mohammed Arif Naseem will fight from Chandivali Jyoti Gaikwad mdash the sister of Mumbai North Central Lok Sabha Member Varsha mdash has got a ticket from Dharavi Mumbaidevi legislator Amin Patel also retained his ticket from the same constituencyFormer Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan will be fighting the Maharashtra Assembly election from the Karad South constituency in Satara while exminister Yashomati Thakur will contest from the Teosa Amravati district seatLate Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukhs sons Dhiraj and Amit have been given tickets from Latur Rural and Latur City respectively The two brothers are sitting legislators from their respective constituenciesVishwajeet Kadam the son of former Congress leader Patangrao has retained his ticket from PalusKadegaon in Sangli district See the full list of names hereShiv Sena UBT NCP SP also declared first listCongress allies Shiv Sena Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray and Nationalist Congress Party Sharadchandra Pawar have also announced their first set of names The MVA allies have decided to contest the Maharashtra Assembly election on 85 seats each The Shiv Sena UBT announced 65 candidates on Wednesday while NCP SP declared 45 names in its first listEarlier in the day NCP SPs Jayant Patil and Shiv Sena UBT legislator Aaditya Thackeray filed their nominations for the Maharashtra Assembly electionSitting MLAs Sunil Raut Vikroli Sunil Prabhu Dindoshi Rutuja Latke Andheri East Prakash Phatephekar Chembur Sanjay Potnis Kalina Vaibhav Naik Kudal Bhaskar Jadhav Guhagar Nitin Deshmukh Balapur Rajan Salvi Rajapur Ramesh Korgaonkar Bhandup West have made the first list of Shiv Sena UBT In Mumbai Udesh Patklar Magathane Anant Nar Jogeshwari East Samir Desai Goregaon and Mahesh Sawant Mahim are the other candidates Former MP Rajan Vichare Thane Naresh Manera Ovala Majiwada and Dighe will lead the Thackeray Sena challenge against the rival factionNCP SP has fielded Yugendra Pawar to contest against his uncle and Maharashtra Deputy CM Ajit from Baramati The others in theNCP SPlist included its state chief Jayant Patil Islampur Jitendra Awhad MumbraKalwa Anil Deshmukh Katol Harshvardhan Patil Indapur and late R R Patils son Rohit who is making a debut TasgaonKavthemahankal