With the BJP releasing its first checklist of 99 candidates for the upcoming Maharashtra Meeting polls, the ruling Mahayuti alliance is going through infighting in not less than 4 seats the place the BJP candidates are being opposed by the native Shiv Sena employees, who’ve threatened to not marketing campaign for them.
The 4 seats are Kalyan East, Thane, Navi Mumbai and Murbad.
In Kalyan East, the BJP has nominated Sulabha Gaikwad, the spouse of Ganpat Gaikwad, who’s in jail for allegedly opening hearth on the Sena chief Mahesh Gaikwad inside Hill Line police station in Ulhas Nagar.
The Shinde Sena leaders have been opposing the nomination of Gaikwad’s spouse since starting and have now threatened to not marketing campaign for the BJP candidate.
The Shiv Sena employees together with Mahesh Gaikwad additionally staged a symbolic protest Monday demanding to area one other candidate from the seat. “The Kalyan East Meeting seat is a Shiv Sena bastion and solely Shiv Sena’s candidates have to be fielded from right here,” a Shinde Sena functionary mentioned including that the social gathering employees are additionally upset with Sena for permitting BJP to take the seat.
The Sena employees are additionally opposing the BJP’s choice to area sitting MLA Sanjay Kelkar in Thane, the stronghold of Chief Minister and Shiv Sena chief Eknath Shinde; Ganesh Naik from Airoli in Navi Mumbai; and Kisan Kathore from Murbad constituency of Palghar.
On all of the three seats, the native Sena employees hoping that the Shinde Sena candidate ought to have been fielded.
Nonetheless a Sena functionary mentioned that the social gathering will take steps to placate the upset employees. “It’s apparent for the employees to get upset if the seat is gone to a different social gathering. However we’re contesting the polls in an alliance and we’ll marketing campaign for the candidate of the alliance be it from Sena or BJP or NCP. We are going to take crucial efforts to placate the upset employees and the infighting might be beneath the siege,” the Sena functionary mentioned.
In the meantime, friction can also be there between BJP and NCP over the candidature of NCP chief Nawab Malik.
BJP leaders have brazenly opposed the candidature of NCP chief Nawab Malik for the upcoming Maharashtra meeting election. “We is not going to settle for giving a ticket to somebody linked to underworld don Dawood Ibrahim,” Ashish Shelar, Mumbai BJP president mentioned on Tuesday.
Malik, the sitting MLA from Anushakti Nagar, could contest from Mankhurd-Shivaji Nagar and go away the Anushakti Nagar constituency to his daughter Sana, who plans to make her debut in electoral politics from the NCP-led by Ajit Pawar.
Malik was a minister within the Maha Vikas Aghadi authorities and was arrested in 2022 in a case first registered by the NIA towards Dawood and his associates together with Chhota Shakeel and Tiger Memon.
In the meantime, there may be additionally a tussle between the Shiv Sena and BJP over the Worli Meeting constituency which is presently represented by the Sena UBT chief Aaditya Thackeray, with each events vying for the seat.
