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THE MAHIM assembly constituency of Central Mumbai is each acceptable for a triangular combat betwixt 3 Senas — Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena, Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena UBT and Raj Thackeray-led Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS).
While Shinde Sena has fielded its sitting MLA Sada Sarvankar from the seat, the Sena UBT has fielded Mahesh Sawant. However, the Mahim constituency, which houses the undivided Shiv Sena’s office — the Shiv Sena Bhavan, which is present Sena UBT headquarters, and the prestigious Shivaji Park is successful the limelight owing to the candidature of the Amit Thackeray, the lad of Raj Thackeray.
Since Amit who is going to marque his electoral debut from the seat, the BJP leaders, including Mumbai metropolis president Ashish Shelar and authorities president Chandrashekhar Bawankule, connected Saturday expressed that they would privation ruling confederation to pledge enactment to Amit. However, a determination is yet to beryllium made. Saravankar had clarified connected Saturday that helium volition beryllium filing his information papers connected Monday.
Speaking to reporters successful Bandra, Shelar said, “If Raj Thackeray, who has retained his stance connected Hindutva and supports us… has announced his son’s candidacy, past we ought to support our relationship. If Amit Thackeray is contesting elections, past arsenic Mahayuti we indispensable enactment him.”
Shelar added that helium would sermon it with CM Shinde and his deputies Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar.
The BJP Mumbai president past said helium was not against state Shiv Sena’s Mahim campaigner Sada Sarvankar, but supporting Amit Thackeray “will convey a affirmative connection to the radical of Maharashtra”.
Speaking astir the efforts to retreat Saravankar from the seat, Sena person and curate Deepak Kesarkar said connected Sunday that it is the work of the ruling confederation to enactment the candidature of Amit Thackeray. “Raj Thackeray had supported the ruling confederation without contesting a azygous spot successful the Lok Sabha. So it is our work to enactment Amit Thackeray. The talks are connected with our existent MLA Sada Saravankar and with owed respect to Saravankar, Chief Minister Eknath Shinde volition lick the issue. It is our work to enactment Amit Thackeray and Raj Thackeray,” helium said, adding that Sada Saravankar has been fixed the presumption of Minister of State which volition beryllium continued for the adjacent 5 years.
It remains to beryllium seen whether Shinde volition retreat Sarvankar to debar imaginable part of votes.
The MNS has decided to contention the Maharashtra Assembly polls unsocial and has already announced a database of 58 candidates.
The Marathi-dominated Mahim constituency, which spreads from Prabhadevi to Shivaji Park to Mahim, is considered important for each the 3 parties, particularly due to the fact that of the humanities Shivaji Park crushed and the Maharashtrian colonisation that resides successful the area.
It was from Shivaji Park that precocious Shiv Sena laminitis Bal Thackeray floated the enactment successful 1966 and would code the party’s yearly Dussehra rally till his demise. Later, Uddhav Thackeray has been addressing Sena workers from the iconic ground.
Raj, nephew of Bal Thackeray, besides launched his enactment successful 2006 from Shivaji Park. He organises his party’s yearly Gudi padwa rally determination and is besides a nonmigratory of the area.
While the Mahim constituency has ever been the bastion of the undivided Shiv Sena, a subordinate of the Thackeray household being the campaigner during this predetermination has made it a pugnacious combat aft the Sena split.
For 2 consecutive presumption — successful 2019 and 2014, undivided Shiv Sena’s Sada Saravankar won from the seat. In 2014, the enactment defeated Nitin Sardesai of the MNS, portion successful 2019, Sarwankar defeated Sandeep Deshpande of the MNS.
In 2009, the Shiv Sena fielded Marathi histrion Aadesh Bandekar who mislaid to Sardesai. With a mixed demography and premix of precocious people and precocious caste Marathi voters arsenic good arsenic Muslim voters, Mahim is besides location to respective Marathi businessmen, cricketers, actors and writers.
In the precocious held Lok Sabha elections, the MNS supported the ruling confederation and the Shiv Sena UBT trailed from Mahim by 13,990 votes. However, Sena UBT campaigner Anil Desai emerged the victor and is presently an MP from Mumbai South Central.
Owing to the pb successful the Mahim conception during the LS polls, the Mahim Vidhan Sabha conception seemed an casual contention for Shinde Sena’s Sada Saravankar, however, with Amit Thackeray’s introduction into the conflict has made it challenging. All the 3 parties volition beryllium relying connected Marathi votes and each 3 volition person to conflict to get a decisive lead.
Meanwhile, determination are signs that Uddhav Sena volition payment from the confederation with Congress successful this election. Congress besides has immoderate voters successful Mahim seat. In the erstwhile assembly elections, the Congress campaigner got 15,246 votes successful this area.
EARLIER FIGURES
2019 Assembly polls
Sada Saravankar (Shinde Sena) – 61,337
Sandeep Deshpande (MNS) – 42,690
Praveen Naik (Congress) – 15,246
2024 Lok Sabha polls
Rahul Shewale (Shinde Sena) – 69,488
Anil Desai (Uddhav Sena) – 55,498
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