Among the many names which have been anticipated to be within the record of candidates for the Maharashtra Meeting elections however didn’t make it are that of two former cops and an IRS officer.
Former Mumbai Police Commissioner Sanjay Pandey, who joined Congress in September, IRS officer Sameer Wankhede, and retired ACP Vasant Dhoble have been anticipated to be within the ballot fray.
In the meantime, spouse of former police officer Pradeep Sharma, who had joined Shinde Sena, ultimately filed nomination as an impartial candidate.
Sources stated that whereas Pandey was all for contesting the Meeting polls from Versova, the seat was given to Congress’s MVA ally Sena (UBT).
“He couldn’t begrudge the occasion as they didn’t get the seat. And he didn’t wish to go away the occasion that he simply joined,” a supply stated.
About talks of him being given another seat to contest, the supply stated, “He had labored in Versova and felt he had an opportunity there. It was pointless preventing from a seat the place he had no base. He determined to bow out of the race.”
Swikruti Sharma, spouse of former police officer Pradeep Sharma, who was referred to as “encounter specialist”, had joined the Shiv Sena led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and was anticipated to contest from Andheri East.
The seat was, nevertheless, given to Murji Patel, the BJP candidate who moved to Shinde Sena.
Sharma filed nomination as an impartial from the seat which is at the moment held by Sena UBT MLA Rutuja Latke.
“We now have performed a number of social work over the previous one yr together with offering ambulances that performed medical camps at six locations daily,” Sharma instructed The Indian Specific.
Earlier there have been rumours that Patel was requested to withdraw from the competition, however ultimately he was chosen because the Shinde Sena candidate from the seat. Patel had beforehand contested in opposition to Latke in a by-election.
Sources stated that BJP’s reluctance to assist Swikruti Sharma’s candidacy additionally stems from her husband’s controversial previous, together with his arrest by the Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) in reference to the Antilia bomb scare case.
A supply stated that Shinde Sena leaders try to persuade Pradeep Sharma to take again the candidature of his spouse.
They’ve time until November 4, the final date for withdrawal of nominations.
Round every week in the past, there have been speculations about Sameer Wankhede, a serving IRS officer, contesting polls from Shinde Sena from Dharavi. Nevertheless, sources within the occasion denied any such transfer.
Sources near Wankhede claimed that whereas he did have feelers from some events, he was reluctant to surrender on his 16 years of service and determined to remain the course.
At the moment posted in Chennai, Wankhede had courted controversy throughout his probe within the and Cordelia drug bust case through which he had arrested Aryan Khan, son of actor Shah Rukh Khan.
There have been additionally speculations about retired ACP Vasant Dhoble, recognized for his raids on bars in Mumbai, displaying curiosity in contesting the upcoming polls.
Whereas banners declaring assist for him within the elections had come up within the Goregaon space, Dhoble’s identify additionally didn’t come up when the events the place selecting candidates.
