Maharashtra Elections 2024: BJP’s third list out, Borivali MLA dropped

In its third list of 25 candidates the Bharatiya Janata Party BJP has dropped five sitting MLAs including Sunil Rane who is representing Borivli With 24 seats still to be distributed between three Mahayuti partners the BJP has so far named 146 candidates Rane the Borivli MLA was replaced by Sanjay Upadhyay Rane had replaced the sitting MLA Vinod Tawde in 2019 It is considered as the BJPrsquos safest seat in Mumbai where it has been winning for five decades Bharti Lavekar Versova Parag Shah Ghatkopar East and Ram Satpute MalshirasSC have been retained In Dahanu Vinod Medha will be the BJPrsquos face In Vasai Sneha Dubey has been nominatedSunil Rane incumbent Borivli MLAIn Mumbai the BJP had 16 MLAs in 2019 In its first list the party had announced 14 candidates including city unit president Ashish Shelar sitting in Bandra West and his brother Vinod Shelar debuting in Malad West Sitting MLAsmdashManisha Chaudhary Dahisar Mihir Kotecha Mulund Atul Bhatkhalkar Kandivli East Yogesh Sagar Charkop Vidya Thakur Goregaon Ameet Satam Andheri West Parag Alavani Vile Parle Ram Kadam Ghatkopar West Tamil Selvan SionKoliwada Kalidas Kolamkar Wadala Mangal Prabhat Lodha Malabar Hill and Rahul Narvekar Colaba were retained Three constituencies were left undeclaredWith three more on Monday the BJPrsquos number of Mumbai nominees has gone up to 17 of 36 seats The party expects to get more Shinde Sena has named 11 candidates and NCPAP just one This is the third successive election that the BJP has given an outsider to contest from Borivli In 2014 it was Vinod Tawde As drama unfolded five years later another outsider Sunil Rane replaced Tawde Now it is Ranersquos turn to let in Upadhyay also a nonresident of BorivliVikas Kumbhare sitting MLA Nagpur Central right Pravin Datke BJPrsquos Nagpur Central candidate PICXThe BJP gave four seats to its small allies The party made an announcement to this effect Monday night Mumbairsquos Kalina has gone the Republic Party of IndiaRamdas Athawale faction Shahuwadi has been given to Vinay Kore Badnera went to Ravi Rana and Gangakhed to Mahadev Jankarrsquos party It is still not known whether Jankar who had decided to fight solo has accepted the offerIn Vidarbharsquos Arvi Dy CM Devendra Fadnavisrsquos former executive secretaryofficer on special duty in the CMO Sumit Wankhede will be the BJPrsquos new candidate The party dropped a sitting MLA and party veteran Dadarao Keche to accommodate young Wankhede an engineer by training Wankhede started working under Fadnavis last decade after his graduation and masterrsquos in political leadership and government In 2019 Fadnavis had successfully fielded another OSD Abhimanyu Pawar in Ausa near Latur Pawar is in the Ausa contest yet againIn Nagpur Central BJP replaced its sitting MLA Vikas Kumbhare with MLC and city unit president Pravin Datke Arnirsquos sitting MLA Dr Sandip Dhurve has been denied yet another opportunity His predecessor Raju Todsam will be the partyrsquos ST face there Umarkhed SC constituency also got a new BJP candidate in Kishan Wankhede for whom a sitting MLA Namdev Sasane was sidelinedSumit Wankhede who will contest the Arvi seat PICFacebook right Dadarao Keche Arvi MLA PicXThe BJP retained Harish Pimple in Murtizapur and brought in an independent MLA Kishor Jorgewar to make him its candidate in Chandrapur Sai Dahake wife of former MLA Prakash Dahake NCPAP of Karanja was inducted on Saturday and given a ticket on Monday In Tiosa Rajesh Wankhede will take on former minister Yashomati Thakur yet again In Katol Charansingh Thakur will be up against former home minister Anil Deshmukhrsquos son Salil Deshmukh NCPSP In neighbouring Savner Ashish Deshmukh will lead a BJP challenge against former minister Sunil Kedarrsquos wife Anuja CongressFormer minister Nitin Raut Congress will again meet his rival Dr Milind Mane in Nagpur South SC who had won in 2014 but lost to Raut five years later Former MLA Sudhakar Kohale has been shifted to Nagpur West to fight Congressrsquos sitting MLA Vikas Thakre Avinash Anandrao Brahmankar has been placed against the state Congress president Nana Patole Dr Archana Patil Chakurkar will take on former minister and threetime Congress MLA Amit Deshmukh in Latur City Dr Archana is the daughterinlaw of former Union home minister and Congress veteran Shivraj Patil MLA Jitesh Antapurkar who quit the Congress recently will contest on BJPrsquos ticket from DeglurFriendly fight in MorshiNCPSPrsquos sitting MLA Devendra Bhuyar from Morshi in Amravati has claimed that he has received an authority letter from his party but the BJP has named Umesh Yavalkar in the fight Bhuyar an independent had beaten BJPrsquos thenminister Dr Anil Bonde in 2019 He joined NCPrsquos Ajit Pawar faction recently but his seat has gone to the BJP in seatsharing Ajit Pawarrsquos party hadnrsquot officially announced Bhuyarrsquos candidature though Malik to file papers todayWith Nawab Malikrsquos nomination to be filed from MankhurdShivaji Nagar on Tuesday the suspense over his affiliation is expected to be unravelled His daughter Sana has been made NCPAjit Pawarrsquos nominee from Anushakti Nagar the seat her father represents currently NCPrsquos ally the BJP had opposed Malikrsquos name as a Mahayuti candidate in view of the PMLA cases against himShaina to be Sena aspirantMeanwhile the Shinde Sena announced 15 candidates including two for small allies BJP leader Shaina NC will contest on a Shiv Sena ticket from Mumbadevi in Mumbai BJP exMP Raosaheb Danversquos daughter Sanjana Jadhav will be the Kannad candidateSon replaces Anil DeshmukhIn a dramatic development on Monday NCPSP leader former home minister and sitting MLA from Katol Anil Deshmukh was replaced by his son Salil Deshmukh as the partyrsquos official candidate The fatherrsquos name was announced in the first list on October 24 but erased a day before the nominations closed The son was prepared to file his nomination but the family postponed the event to Tuesday because there was little time at hand to reach the election office on Monday