BJP releases third list for Maharashtra assembly polls, Archana Patil to face Amit Deshmukh in Latur

Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, Archana Patil Chakurkar, chairperson of Lifecare Hospital and Research Centre successful Udgir, formally joined the BJP. She had past cited Nari Vandan Adhiniyam arsenic a crushed for her introduction into authorities arsenic it gave adjacent accidental to women.

With the 3rd database of 25 candidates released Monday, BLP’s tally goes up to 146 retired of 288 seats. Its confederation spouse Shiv Sena led by CM Eknath Shinde has announced candidates for 65 constituencies with the NCP led by lawman main curate Ajit Pawar announcing 49 candidates.

In Arvi constituency, the BJP has replaced sitting MLA Dadarao Keche with Sunil Wankhede who has worked arsenic idiosyncratic adjunct to erstwhile main curate Devendra Fadnavis. In Nagpur North Central, 3 word sitting MLA Vikas Kumbhare has been dropped. Instead erstwhile Nagpur Municipal Corporator politician and MLC Pravin Datke was fixed the summons successful Arvi. In the Arni constituency, sitting MLA Sandip Dhurve is replaced by Raju Todsam.

In Borivali, sitting MLA Sunil Rane has been replaced by Sanjay Upadhyay. The determination has not gone down good with the party’s elder person and erstwhile MP Gopal Shetty who was vying for the Borivali constituency. In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, BJP dropped the sitting MP from Mumbai North, choosing national curate Piyush Goyal arsenic their candidate. Though upset with the decision, Shetty was hoping helium would beryllium compensated with a summons from Borivali successful the authorities assembly. A adjacent adjutant of Shetty said, “The enactment has done injustice to Gopal Shetty. First they dropped him successful Lok Sabha and present assembly. We privation him to contention arsenic an autarkic candidate.”

Despite interior bickering, 2 word MLA Bharati Lavekar has been retained for Versova spot and Parag Shah for Ghatkopar East.

Jitesh Antapurkar is contesting from the Deglur seat. He is simply a adjacent adjutant of erstwhile CM and BJP Rajya Sabha (MP) Ashok Chavan who switched sides from Congress to BJP earlier Lok Sabha polls. Antapurkar has won the Deglur by-polls arsenic a Congress campaigner successful 2021.

A notable campaigner contesting from Saoner constituency is Ashish Deshmukh. In the past election, Ashish Deshmukh was Congress campaigner who fought against Fadnavis successful Nagpur South West and lost. Hailing from Congress, helium is the lad of erstwhile MPCC main and curate Ranjit Deshmukh. He had near Congress to articulation BJP successful 2014. In 2018, helium near the BJP to articulation Congress. Now again, earlier the 2024 Lok Sabha polls helium returned to BJP.

Despite protestation from elder curate Sudhir Mungantiwar, BJP has fixed summons to autarkic campaigner Kishore Jorgewar successful Chandrapur constituency. In the past assembly polls, Jorgewar won the spot arsenic an autarkic candidate. He formally joined the BJP connected Sunday.

The database has 4 women candidates — Sai Prakash Dahake (Karanja seat), Archana Patil Chakurkar (Latur Rural), Bharati Lavekar (Versova), Sneha Dube (Vasai).