2019 re-run in both seats: Cong fields former minister Bagwe from Cantonment, Bahirat from Shivajinagar

Bagwe volition look sitting MLA Sunil Kamble of the BJP, whom helium fought against successful the 2019 Assembly elections . A seasoned campaigner, Bagwe is simply a two-time MLA, having won from the Parvati constituency successful 2004 and past from the Cantonment spot successful 2009 pursuing the delimitation of the Assembly constituencies. However, the spot was wrested from him by Dilip Kamble of the BJP successful the 2014 Assembly polls.

There has been dissent successful the Congress campy successful the run-up to the elections implicit Bagwe’s re-nomination.

His rivals wrong the enactment person been harping connected the information that helium had mislaid the past 2 elections and that it was present clip for a change.
However, Bagwe cited the past works done successful the constituency and besides the enactment helium draws from the Matang and different number communities.

“I person been nominated wholly connected my merit. I americium a Congress loyalist, worked for the enactment successful antithetic capacities and adjacent ensured that this constituency delivered a beardown pb for Congress campaigner Ravindra Dhangekar during the caller Lok Sabha elections,” 71-year aged Bagwe told The Indian Express.

He volition record his information signifier connected October 29. Arvind Shinde, metropolis Congress chief, told The Indian Express, “Whoever the enactment nominates we volition guarantee that helium gets elected.”

Reserved for Scheduled Caste candidates, the constituency has 2.9 lakh voters.

Meanwhile, successful the Shivajinagar constituency, Datta Bahirat volition erstwhile again look BJP’s sitting MLA Siddharth Shirole.

In 2019 the Assembly elections, Bahirat had mislaid to Shirole by a constrictive borderline of 5,200 votes. In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, BJP campaigner Murlidhar Mohol had secured a tiny pb of 3,000 votes from Shivajinagar assembly seat.

“Bahirat is easy accessible to people. He has been moving relentlessly successful the constituency for the past 5 years,” said Congress wide caput Ramesh Iyer.