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(From left) Sanjaykaka Patil, Rajkumar Badole, Nishikant Bhosale Patil, Nilesh Rane and Prataprao Patil Chikhalikar.
If politicians jumping vessel is simply a norm during the elections, the ruling Mahayuti successful Maharashtra is possibly witnessing a caller trend. At slightest 5 BJP leaders person switched to different Mahayuti partners successful a bid to unafraid tickets, adjacent arsenic the sanctity of the coalition’s seat-sharing statement has been retained.
An investigation of specified switchovers shows that each these turncoats who person shifted to the BJP’s allies person been allotted tickets for the November 20 authorities Assembly elections. These candidates person either joined the Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena oregon the Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP).
The improvement is being seen arsenic an “internal arrangement” wrong the incumbent conjugation to guarantee that the “strongest candidate” is fielded by it without violating the fig of seats allotted to each partner.
The BJP’s Nilesh Rane, lad of erstwhile CM and Union curate Naryan Rane, joined the Shinde Sena earlier this week to contention connected its summons from the Kudal-Sawantwadi Assembly seat, which had been allocated to the Sena.
Rane, a erstwhile Congress MP who joined the BJP successful 2019, volition instrumentality connected the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT)’s sitting MLA Vaibhav Naik, who is besides a staunch hostile of the Rane family. The Sena (UBT) is simply a constituent of the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance.
Four different BJP leaders person joined the NCP to contention from its allotted seats. On Friday, 2 BJP leaders from Sangli, erstwhile MP Sanjaykaka Patil and territory BJP president Nishikant Bhosale Patil, joined the NCP successful the beingness of its main Ajit Pawar and authorities enactment president Sunil Tatkare successful Mumbai.
Close connected the heels of their induction, the NCP named them arsenic the party’s candidates – Nishikant from the Islampur Assembly spot and Sanjaykaka from the Tasgaon constituency.
Sanjaykaka volition beryllium successful the fray against the Sharad Pawar-led NCP (SP)’s Rohit Patil, lad of the precocious NCP person R R Patil, who is making his electoral debut. Nishikant has been pitted against the NCP (SP)’s sitting MLA and authorities president Jayant Patil.
After joining the NCP, Nishikant said that helium had switched implicit from the BJP connected the directions of Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis.
“I had to displacement to the NCP from the BJP arsenic the Islampur Assembly spot went to the NCP. I volition triumph the predetermination from the Islampur spot connected the NCP ticket,” said Nishikant, who had contested the spot arsenic an Independent successful the 2019 Assembly polls and finished arsenic the runner-up.
On Friday, Prataprao Patil Chikhalikar, a BJP person from the Nanded district, besides joined the NCP to contention the Loha Assembly constituency connected its ticket. The erstwhile Nanded MP has been a two-time MLA from Loha.
On Wednesday, the BJP’s Raj Badole, a erstwhile authorities minister, had joined the NCP and is acceptable to contention arsenic its campaigner from the Arjuni-Morgaon Assembly seat, which helium has represented doubly but mislaid successful the 2019 polls.
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