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Stating that a staunch Hindutva person similar him has been sidelined by the BJP, the party’s Pune metropolis main Dheeraj Ghate connected Saturday slammed the enactment aft helium was denied the summons to contention the upcoming Maharashtra Assembly elections from the Kasba seat.
In the database of candidates declared by the BJP connected Saturday, sitting legislator Bhimrao Tapkir was fixed a summons for the 4th clip consecutive clip from Khadakwasla seat, sitting MLA Sunil Kamble was fielded a 2nd clip consecutively from Pune Cantonment and erstwhile corporator Hemant Rasane has been fielded for the 2nd clip from Kasba, contempt failing to clasp the BJP bastion successful the bypoll past year.
Ghate has been seeking a enactment summons for galore years from Kasba assembly spot and was hopeful to get an opportunity, considering his publication to the enactment arsenic a loyal idiosyncratic and presently arsenic the party’s metropolis portion chief. “You privation a Hindutva authorities but don’t privation a Hindutva activistic for 30 years arsenic a candidate,” Ghate tweeted instantly aft the BJP declared Rasane arsenic the campaigner from Kasba seat.
According to sources adjacent to him, Ghate volition not rebel against the enactment but wants to explicit his displeasure to the enactment leadership.
Ghate is simply a staunch Hindutva person and was elected arsenic a corporator to the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) successful 2017. He was made Leader of House successful the civic assemblage by the BJP aft it came to power. He was aboriginal replaced abruptly but made the BJP’s Pune portion chief.
The BJP had won the Kasba spot for past fewer decades but mislaid the spot successful the bypoll to Congress campaigner Ravindra Dhangekar.
Earlier, enactment aspirants Srinath Bhimale had expressed displeasure for being ignored to contention the Parvati spot arsenic the BJP declared the candidature of sitting legislator Madhuri Misal for the 4th clip consecutively. Amol Balwadkar excessively was upset for the attraction fixed to him by enactment leaders aft helium sought candidature from Kothrud assembly spot by challenging sitting BJP veteram Chandrakant Patil.
The BJP besides declined summons to Deepak Nagpure successful Khadakwasla, who was projecting himself arsenic a Hindutva person up of the Assembly elections.
Former metropolis BJP main Jagdish Mulik excessively has expressed displeasure for not being the party’s prime to contention the Vadgaonsheri seat, which helium had won successful 2014 but mislaid successful 2019. The spot is being contested by confederation NCP, which has fielded sitting legislator Sunil Tingre for the constituency.
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