Devendra Fadnavis files nomination from Nagpur South-West; watch video

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and senior BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis on Friday filed his nomination from the Nagpur SouthWest assembly constituency for the Maharashtra assembly elections 2024 reported news agency PTIAddressing a rally before filing the papers he said the Mahayuti governments work speaks for itself and hit out at the opposition parties saying the Ladki Bahin scheme and its beneficiaries were enough to defeat them LIVE 2024 Maharashtra DevaBhau SouthWestNagpur httpstcoaSGQNgp36gmdash Devendra Fadnavis Dev_Fadnavis October 25 2024Fadnavis who was the chief minister of the state from 2014 to 2019 and for a short tenure of 80 hours in November 2019 has successfully contested the assembly polls for five times from Nagpur two times from Nagpur West constituency and three times from Nagpur SouthWest seatThis is his sixth assembly election He has been an MLA for the past 25 years starting 1999Before filing his nomination form Fadnavis visited Union minister and former BJP chief Nitin Gadkaris residence Both the BJP leaders then paid floral tributes to Dr Babasaheb Ambedkars statue at the Sanvidhan square in the city followed by a roadshow from there till Akashvani squareAddressing a gathering at the end of the roadshow Fadnavis said Our work speaks louder than our words People can see the development in Nagpur be it Nagpur Metro Rail NagpurMumbai Samruddhi Expressway or other development projects that have changed the face of Nagpur reported PTIThe work carried out by the BJP in the last sevenandahalf years in the state and by the Centre in the last 10 years has changed the face of Nagpur he saidI wont talk about the opposition parties as our Ladki Bahin scheme and its beneficiaries is enough for them Congress leaders Sunil Kedar and Nana Patole even tried to stop the Ladki Bahin Yojana by filing a petition in Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court he added reported PTILadki Bahin is a flagship scheme of the Eknath Shindeled Mahayuti government under which eligible women get a financial assistance of Rs 1500 per monthThe Mahayuti government changed the picture of Vidarbha through several projects including the Gosikhurd irrigation projects development of Nagpur and Amravati airport and other worksThe Mahayuti government is creating a new Maharashtra under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi who is creating a new India Fadnavis said reported PTIHe said his government issued 48 Government Resolutions GR for the welfare of the Other Backward Classes OBC community and challenged the Congress to show even one such GR issued during its term reported PTIIt has also worked for the tribal community and all other sections of the society he saidFadnavis and two other sitting BJP MLAs Mohan Mate from Nagpur South and Krishna Khopde from Nagpur East filed their nominations at the Nagpur district collectorate Gadkari and state BJP chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule accompanied Fadnavis at the timeAddressing the gathering earlier Gadkari said what the Congress could not do in 60 years the Mahayuti government has done in Nagpur and Maharashtra under the leadership of Fadnavis and PM ModiGadkari who is a Lok Sabha member from the Nagpur constituency said that development works of more than Rs 1 lakh crore were carried out in Nagpur in the last 10 yearsMaharashtra has got a very able leadership in the form of Fadnavis he said urging people to give the reins of the state in Fadnavis hands againWith inputs from PTI