Maharashtra: BJP takes 2024 poll challenge to Sharad Pawar's turf

Challenging Sharad Pawarled Nationalist Congress Party NCP in his home turf Baramati Maharashtra BJP chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule on Tuesday said the saffron party and Eknath Shindeled Shiv Sena combine will win the constituency in the 2024 elections along with more than 45 seats in the stateHitting back the NCP said the Bharatiya Janata Party BJP should stop daydreaming to wrest Baramati from sitting MP Supriya SuleBawankule is on the Baramati tour to interact with BJP cadres ahead of Union minister Nirmala Sitharamans visit to the constituencyBaramati in Pune district has been the stronghold of Sharad Pawar who had represented the constituency multiple times including his days in the Indian National Congress His daughter Supriya Sule is the sitting MP and nephew Ajit Pawar is the MLAThe BJP has launched a campaign to boost the partys base in more than 140 Lok Sabha constituencies across the country including Baramati and 15 other seats in MaharashtraAlso Read Sharad Pawar advocates unity of Opposition parties for 2024 electionsBawankule told Marathi news channel ABP Majha that the BJP has launched a programme to reach out to every voter in these 16 constituenciesGiven the performance of the Narendra Modi government in the last eight years and various welfare schemes for the poor launched by the Centre and the Eknath ShindeDevendra Fadnavis government I am confident that we will change the opinion of the people Once the opinion of people is changed big fortresses fall he saidBawankule said the BJP and Shiv Sena led by chief minister Eknath Shinde will win more than 45 of the total 48 LS seats from Maharashtra including Baramati in the 2024 electionsExplaining the factors shaping BJPs optimism to win Baramati Bawankule said without taking NCPs name that the party which represents Baramati lacks visionHe referred to Congress political slide to aim for the NCPThe Congress lost after being in power for 55 years See the situation of Congress Congress digressed from its thought it deviated from its vision and when leaders start working to save their positions their fortresses fallA similar thing is happening in Baramati In Baramati there is no vision The party which is in power here lacks vision A group of leaders is called NCP and those who get elected from this group they work for themselves he saidAsked about the selection of the candidates for the Lok Sabha constituencies the BJP leader said the Central leadership will pick nomineesHe said ministers have been assigned the responsibility to visit the 16 LS constituenciesBawankule also visited Katewadi the native village of Sharad PawarIn the 2019 Lok Sabha elections BJP candidate Kanchan Kul wife of Daund MLA Rahul Kul lost to Sule by a margin of over 155 lakh votesIn the last LS elections the BJP had contested 25 seats in Maharashtra and won 23 while the partys then ally Shiv Sena bagged 18 of the 23 seatsMaking light of Bawankules statement NCP said the BJP should stop daydreaming to win BaramatiBJP president Chandrashekhar Bawankule claimed his party will win the Baramati Lok Sabha constituency in 2024 This assertion will never see the light of the day The BJP should stop daydreaming about winning the Baramati constituency said NCP chief spokesperson Mahesh TapaseHe said leaders of the BJP are known to make rhetorical statements to grab the medias attention and Bawankules statement should not be taken seriouslySupriya Sule is known more as a social leader and her contribution in the Baramati Lok Sabha constituency is well recognised She has been bestowed with the prestigious Sansad Ratna award seven times She was honoured as the Sansad Maharatna in the 16th Lok Sabha and as Sansad Vishishtha Ratna in the 17th Lok Sabha he addedAll these awards were bestowed upon her by the Modi governmentBawankule should enlighten us as to how many BJP MPs from Maharashtra have repeatedly been accorded the same honour for their parliamentary performance asked TapaseTaking a dig he said it will be interesting to see how Sitharaman who never won any Lok Sabha election will campaign against SuleThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever