NCP releases list for 24 Lok Sabha, 122 Assembly seats

Sanjay Jog

Mumbai, Aug 9: The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Monday announced 24 candidates for Parliament and 122 nominees for state Assembly. NCP president Sharad Pawar along with former 12 MPs, have been nominated, while contrary to the expectations, the state unit president Chhagan Bhujbal, has not been given candidature from his home constituency, Mazgaon in the South Central Mumbai. Bhujbal, who had crossed over from the Shiv Sena to the Congress in 1991, was defeated by the Sena nominee Bala Nandgaonkar. Bhujbal was the lone Sena member elected from the Mazgaon Assembly seat in 1985 elections, while he was re-elected in the 1990 elections. NCP now has nominated a former corporator and Bhujbal's disciple, Sunita Shinde to take on Nandgaonkar in the Mazgaon constituency.

NCP, which is still struggling for seat-sharing arrangement with the secular and like-minded parties to take on the Congress and the ruling Shiv Sena-BJP alliance in Maharashtra, has nominated 58 former MLAs (members of legislativeassembly). NCP has fielded three members of Maharashtra Legislative Council (Babanrao Dhakne, Rajani Satav and Ramchandra Tadas).

Former Independent legislators in the dissolved Assembly, Dilip Sopal (Barshi), Tukaram Dighole (Sinnar), Sahebrao Darekar (Ashti), Babanrao Shinde (Madha), Rajendra Shingne (Sindkhed Raja), Ramraje Nimbalkar (Phaltan), Mohan Gudge (Khatau), Madan Pisal (Wai) also figured in the NCP list. NCP has nominated former BJP legislators Vimal Mundada from Kej constituency in Beed district, which is the home district of the deputy chief minister Gopinath Munde and former minister AT Pawar from Kalwan in Nashik district. The party has given candidature to the former Shiv Sena legislator Bajirao Jagtap from the Majalgaon constituency from Beed district.Prominent nominees for the Assembly include :Baramati(Pune district)-Sharad Pawar's nephew and the chairman of the Rs 5,500 crore Maharashtra State Cooperative Bank Ajit Pawar, Walva(Sangli district)-Maharashtra State Cooperative SugarFactories Federation Jayant Patil, Ambegaon (Pune)-Pawar protegy, Dilip Walse-Patil, Satara-Chhatrapati Shivaji's descendent and former MP Abhaysinhraje Bhosale, Chikhli(Buldhana)-former member of legislative council Babanrao Chaudhari, Tiwasa (Amravati)-former deputy speaker Sharad Tasre, Morshi(Amravati)-former minister Harshvardhan Deshmukh, Dabhadi(Nashik)-former Sena leader and a son of former minister Pushpatai Hire, Prashant Hire, Thane-former mayor Ashok Raul, Colaba (South Mumbai)-former MLA Ashok Dhatrak, Bhandup (North East Mumbai)-son of trade unionist Dinamama Patil, Sanjay Patil. The list of Lok Sabha nominees include : Baramati-Sharad Pawar, Ratnarigi-Sujit Ziman, North West Mumbai-former minister Ramesh Dube, Thane- Prabhakar Hegde, Dahanu- former MP Shankar Nam, Nashik-former MP Madhavrao Patil, Dhule-former MP Dhanaji Ahire, Erandol-Vasant More and Buldhana-Sahebrao Sardar.

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