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AT THE tallness of their powers, the Naik household occupied some the Assembly seats falling successful Navi Mumbai namely Airoli and Belapur, the Thane Lok Sabha constituency which covers Navi Mumbai, and the station of the politician of Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation. The patriarch Ganesh Naik was the Guardian Minister of Thane arsenic well. This was betwixt 2009 and 2014 erstwhile Ganesh Naik was the MLA from Belapur, his younger lad Sandeep was the MLA from Airoli, his elder lad Sanjeev was the MP from Thane Lok Sabha constituency and nephew Sagar Naik was the NMMC mayor. This led to the household besides facing allegations of doing dynasty politics.
However, this clip the household has its sole MLA from Airoli spot volition person to proceed its conflict with acquainted foes to support grip connected the outer metropolis of Navi Mumbai, which astatine 1 constituent was its bastion.
Naik, a national person from the Thane-Belapur area, had joined Shiv Sena successful 1990, moved to NCP successful 1999 and had maintained a beardown grip connected Navi Mumbai. It was aft PM Narendra Modi came to powerfulness successful 2014 that his power started waning, forcing him to articulation the BJP successful 2019–leaving his semipermanent mentor Sharad Pawar.
However, the family’s bid to clasp powerfulness successful Navi Mumbai with 2 Assembly seats–Airoli and Belapur–has not been easy, acknowledgment to aged enactment colleagues and erstwhile proteges who person present turned challengers.
The Belapur Assembly constituency volition beryllium fought by Sandeep Naik, the younger lad of Ganesh Naik, who switched from BJP to Sharad Pawar’s NCP aft the BJP continued to backmost its campaigner and two-term MLA Manda Mhatre for the seat. While announcing his determination to determination to NCP, Naik blamed BJP for “not keeping its connection to him” and “lack of respect and repeated insults” by Manda Mhatre.
Mhatre, who is from the agriculture community, is believed to beryllium a beardown contender successful the spot which has astir 28 per cent Koli Agri population.
The spot is turning into a triangular contention with erstwhile bureaucrat and Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation main Vijay Nahata, who was earlier with the Shinde Sena and aboriginal moved to NCP, volition beryllium warring arsenic an autarkic aft being denied tickets by some parties.
Interestingly, it was the aforesaid spot from wherever the Navi Mumbai bastion of the Naiks was archetypal breached successful Assembly elections by Manda Mhatre, who was past an MLC with the NCP erstwhile Naiks were successful the aforesaid party.
During the 2014 elections, erstwhile not galore gave her a accidental to win, Mhatre switched to BJP and managed to decision Ganesh Naik by a specified 1,419 votes.
This was mostly connected relationship of the contention turning retired to beryllium a triangular combat betwixt her, Ganesh Naik and Nahata with each 3 polling astir 50,000 votes. In 2019, Mhatre managed to clasp the spot adjacent arsenic cipher from the Naik clan oregon Nahata contested against her.
While successful 2014, determination was a akin triangular contention erstwhile each parties were contesting separately. When asked astir the fearfulness of Nahata ending up splitting her votes, Manda Mhatre told The Indian Express, “People present are educated and volition not beryllium swayed truthful easily.”
On the enactment done by her truthful far, Mhatre said, “I person started projects worthy Rs 2,000 crore for the improvement of my constituency for the vikas of the people. The Naiks person been astir for 25 years, but they were ne'er bothered astir development. Now they are going astir talking astir development.”
On the adjacent Airoli seat, which has been with the Naik household ever since it was created successful 2009, it volition beryllium the patriarch Ganesh Naik connected the BJP spot against Shiv Sena UBT campaigner MK Madhavi, a one-time Ganesh Naik loyalist. In the 2019 elections, Ganesh Naik had defeated his rival from undivided NCP, his earlier party, by implicit 75,000 votes.
This clip around, however, the contention has go absorbing owed to the determination of the Shinde Sena’s Thane main and different one-time Ganesh Naik loyalist Vijay Choughule to combat arsenic an autarkic aft helium was denied a ticket.
Sources said that successful the Airoli seat, determination was dissatisfaction among some the Shinde and Sena UBT workers who were unhappy with the choices with immoderate corporators seen accompanying Choughule arsenic helium filed his information arsenic an independent.
Both Nahata and Choughule on with immoderate different corporators person travel unneurotic against the Naiks saying determination is simply a request to extremity the clasp of the household that is not allowing others to travel up. “Their lone involvement is to beforehand their ain household members which is nary longer going down good with others,” Nahata told media persons portion filing his nomination.
Airoli Seat
MVA campaigner – MK Madhavi (62) – Shiv Sena UBT
Mahayuti campaigner – Ganesh Naik (74) – BJP
Population – 4,89,059
Population breakdown – 2,72,504 men, 2,16,423 women
2019 Assembly polls – Ganesh Naik (BJP) won by 78,491
2024 Lok Sabha polls – Naresh Mhaske of Shinde Sena led this conception by 9,798 votes
Belapur seat
MVA Candidate – Sandeep Naik (46) NCP SP
Mahayuti campaigner – Manda Mhatre (68) BJP
Population – 4,23,579
Population breakdown – 2,25,029 men, 1,98,531 women
2019 Assembly polls – Manda Mhatre (BJP) won by 43,597 votes
2024 Lok Sabha polls – Naresh Mhaske of Shinde Sena led this conception by 12,312 votes
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