Mumbai volition beryllium a situation for Eknath Shinde arsenic the enactment managed to triumph lone 1 of the 3 Lok Sabha seats successful the metropolis successful the caller Lok Sabha polls. (File Photo)
The conflict lines drawn, the 2 Shiv Senas are taking connected each different successful astatine slightest 49 seats successful the Maharashtra Assembly elections connected November 20. Nineteen of these constituencies are successful the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), the undivided Sena’s halfway belt. Of these, 12 are successful Mumbai City.
The 2 parties volition besides instrumentality connected each different successful 8 seats each successful the Marathwada and Konkan regions; six successful Vidarbha; 4 successful North Maharashtra; and 4 successful Western Maharashtra. With the Assembly elections the archetypal since the divided of the Sena successful June 2022, these contests volition beryllium important successful establishing who volition beryllium the claimant to Bal Thackeray’s bequest successful the eyes of the voters.
In the caller Lok Sabha polls, the 2 Senas faced disconnected against each different successful 13 seats. Of these, the Sena (UBT) won 7 seats, portion the Shinde-led Sena won six seats.
The MMR portion volition spot the astir salient fights, including the high-profile conflict successful Thane’s Kopri Panchpakhadi, wherever Shinde volition look his precocious governmental mentor Anand Dighe’s nephew Kedar who has got a Sena (UBT) ticket.
In Mumbai’s Worli, Uddhav Thackeray’s lad and erstwhile curate Aaditya is taking connected Rajya Sabha MP Milind Deora who is contesting for the Sena. Sena’s elder person and sitting MLA Sada Sarvankar is up against Mahesh Sawan of Sena (UBT) successful the Mahim seat.
Mumbai volition beryllium a situation for Shinde arsenic the enactment managed to triumph lone 1 of the 3 Lok Sabha seats successful the metropolis successful the caller Lok Sabha polls. The Sena (UBT), which inactive retains enactment successful the city, won Mumbai South, South Central. The Shinde Sena lone managed to triumph Mumbai North West, that excessively by conscionable 48 votes, indicating that the enactment is inactive struggling successful Mumbai.
The Konkan loop is besides important for the Sena due to the fact that of the undivided Sena’s basal successful the region. In the caller Lok Sabha polls, the Shiv Sena (UBT) was wholly wiped retired here, losing each the 5 seats it contested.
In Konkan’s Kudal seat, Union Minister Narayan Rane’s lad Nilesh is successful the fray connected the Shiv Sena summons against the Sena (UBT)’s sitting MLA Vaibhav Naik. The second is simply a staunch hostile of the Rane family.
State curate Uday Samant and his member Kiran are contesting from Ratnagiri and Rajapur respectively against the Sena (UBT)’s Bal Mane and Rajan Salvi, the Rajapur MLA. In Sawantwadi, authorities curate Deepak Kesarkar volition look the Sena (UBT)’s Rajan Teli.
In Marathwada, which was erstwhile considered a stronghold of the undivided Sena, Abdul Sattar, MLA Sanjay Shirsat, and Santosh Bangar volition contention against Sena (UBT) candidates successful Sambhaji Nagar West and Kalamnuri seats, respectively. Two Sena ministers are successful the fray successful Vidarbha. While Tanaji Sawant is successful the fray from Paranda taking connected Sena (UBT)’s Rahul Patil, Sanjay Rathod is successful the fray from Digras against Pawan Jaiswal of Uddhav’s party.