Congress on Sunday fielded social gathering loyalist and former minister of state for house Ramesh Bagwe from the Cantonment Meeting constituency in Pune. In its fourth listing of candidates, launched Sunday, the social gathering additionally named Datta Bahirat from the Shivajinagar seat.
With this, the social gathering will now be contesting three seats in Pune metropolis. On Saturday, the social gathering had nominated Ravindra Dhangekar from Kasba Peth seat.
Bagwe will face sitting MLA Sunil Kamble of the BJP, whom he fought towards within the 2019 Meeting elections . A seasoned campaigner, Bagwe is a two-time MLA, having received from the Parvati constituency in 2004 after which from the Cantonment seat in 2009 following the delimitation of the Meeting constituencies. Nonetheless, the seat was wrested from him by Dilip Kamble of the BJP within the 2014 Meeting polls.
There was dissent within the Congress camp within the run-up to the elections over Bagwe’s re-nomination.
His rivals inside the social gathering have been harping on the truth that he had misplaced the final two elections and that it was now time for a change.
Nonetheless, Bagwe cited the previous works carried out within the constituency and in addition the assist he attracts from the Matang and different minority communities.
“I’ve been nominated solely on my benefit. I’m a Congress loyalist, labored for the social gathering in several capacities and even ensured that this constituency delivered a robust lead for Congress candidate Ravindra Dhangekar throughout the current Lok Sabha elections,” 71-year previous Bagwe instructed The Indian Specific.
He’ll file his nomination kind on October 29. Arvind Shinde, metropolis Congress chief, instructed The Indian Specific, “Whoever the social gathering nominates we’ll be sure that he will get elected.”
Reserved for Scheduled Caste candidates, the constituency has 2.9 lakh voters.
In the meantime, within the Shivajinagar constituency, Datta Bahirat will as soon as once more face BJP’s sitting MLA Siddharth Shirole.
In 2019 the Meeting elections, Bahirat had misplaced to Shirole by a slim margin of 5,200 votes. Within the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, BJP candidate Murlidhar Mohol had secured a small lead of three,000 votes from Shivajinagar meeting seat.
“Bahirat is definitely accessible to individuals. He has been working relentlessly within the constituency for the final 5 years,” stated Congress normal secretary Ramesh Iyer.
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