Maharashtra polls: NCP vs NCP in Shirur as Ashok Pawar takes on Dnyaneshwar Katke

Ashok Pawar, who has remained with NCP laminitis Sharad Pawar’s faction aft the enactment divided past year, has been renominated arsenic the Shirur campaigner by the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi for the Maharashtra Assembly elections 2024. Dnyaneshwar Katke, the Shiv Sena (UBT)’s erstwhile territory main who joined Ajit Pawar’s NCP connected Monday, is the ruling Mahayuti’s candidate.

In the caller Lok Sabha election, the larger Shirur spot was won by Dr Amol Kolhe of the NCP (SP) by beating the Ajit Pawar faction’s Shivaji Adhalrao Patil. He won by an wide borderline of much than 1,40,000 votes and got 12,000 much votes than his nearest hostile successful the Shirur Assembly segment.

The Shirur Assembly constituency includes villages specified arsenic Nhavare, Talegaon Dhamdhere and Bhima Koregaon, and the municipality country of Wagholi successful Pune city. It is 1 of the constituencies affected by the human-leopard conflict, having mislaid 8 quality lives to the occupation successful the Junnar wood part since March. In Wagholi, mediocre roadworthy conditions starring to predominant postulation snarls and long-standing h2o proviso problems are the large issues.