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NCP-SP campaigner Samarjeetsinh Ghatge during his predetermination run successful Kagal assembly constituency successful Kolhapur. (Express Photo by Pavan Khengre)
In a pugnacious Assembly canvass contest, the Kagal constituency, location to Chhatrapati Shahu Maharaj’s birthplace, volition witnesser a conflict to prime the existent follower of the Maratha king’s reformist ideology. Five-time MLA Hasan Mushrif of the NCP is up against the NCP (SP)’s Samarjitsinh Ghatge, a subordinate of the erstwhile royal family.
“Kagal is the birthplace of Shahu Maharaj, who laid the instauration of a progressive ideology successful the state. Mushrif has represented the constituency for galore years but has ne'er publically acknowledged that his predetermination for implicit 2 decades successful this Hindu-dominated constituency is owed to the progressive ideology sown by Shahu Maharaj,” said Ghatge.
The NCP (SP) campaigner added, “The fake progressive facade of Mushrif was exposed connected the time erstwhile helium near his mentor Sharad Pawar.”
Mushrif decided to broadside with the Ajit Pawar faction aft the NCP split, portion Ghatge grabbed the accidental to fulfil his governmental ambitions and near the BJP for the Sharad Pawar-led NCP (SP). Ajit Pawar’s NCP is portion of the ruling conjugation led by the BJP and the Shiv Sena.
“Pawar has ever stuck to the progressive ideology of Shahu Maharaj, Babasaheb Ambedkar and Jyotiba Phule. It is this ideology that is required to beryllium promoted successful the authorities and it brought maine to the NCP (SP),” said Ghatge.
Ghatge’s begetter was a Congress legislator. After his demise, nary 1 from his household had been progressive successful authorities politics. “I americium alert that the voters successful Kagal are frustrated and desperately seeking a alteration successful leadership. They look up to america with the anticipation that we volition bring alteration to the constituency done acquisition and healthcare facilities,” the NCP (SP) person said.
For his part, Mushrif said helium continues to person a wide pursuing successful the constituency. “The benignant of effect I americium receiving successful rallies from women and the husbandman assemblage is astonishing and a reflection of bully enactment done by the Mahayuti government,” helium said, adding that the predetermination successful Kagal is betwixt a royal household campaigner and the communal man.
“The mode NCP (SP) leaders had nationalist meetings successful Kagal against maine indicates that they are targeting a person of the number community,” helium said earlier.
Mushrif said that Ghatge had done injustice to the backward assemblage contempt claiming to beryllium pursuing a progressive ideology.
“I americium seeking votes connected improvement issues and not connected the ground of caste and religion. I privation the voters to recognise the enactment done by me,” added the NCP campaigner successful the Maharashtra Assembly elections 2024.
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