BJP today fielded senior leader Gopinath Munde's daughter Pankaja Palave from Parli even as some partymen protested giving ticket to late Pramod Mahajan's daughter Poonam in the Maharashtra assembly elections.
BJP today fielded senior leader Gopinath Munde's daughter Pankaja Palave from Parli
even as some partymen protested giving ticket to late Pramod Mahajan's daughter Poonam in the Maharashtra assembly elections.
Pankaja is among the 20 candidates announced by BJP today in its second list for the forthcoming Maharashtra assembly elections. Munde's elder brother's son-in-law Madhusudan Kendre has been fielded from Gangakhed, while former Congress leader
Ranjit Deshmukh's son Aashish has been given ticket from Savner.
There have been voices of protest in the BJP from Ghatopkar West assembly seat after Poonam Mahajan was given a ticket. BJP's alliance partner Shiv Sena too has faced
protests from its cadres over ticket distribution.
Yesterday, supporters of a Shiv Sena MLA Sada Sarvankar protested outside the house of senior party leader Manohar Joshi over speculation that Sena was planning to field Milind Vaidya from Dadar instead of Sarvankar. Vaidya. Joshi is a friend of Sarvankar Vaidya.
BJP's Central Election Committee secretary Ananth Kumar said party chief Rajnath Singh has been authorised to announce candidates for the remaining 33 seats. So far the BJP has announced the names of 86 candidates. Munde, a former deputy chief minister of Maharashtra, is planning to field his nephew Dhananjay from his pocket borough of Renapur in Beed district of Marathwada region.
BJP will contest 119 seats while its ally Shiv Sena is contesting 169 seats in the polls. In the last assembly elections, Shiv Sena had given 117 seats to the party.
The BJP also announced 20 more candidates for the Haryana assembly elections where it plans to go alone after its alliance with Indian National Lok Dal came to an end
recently.On Saturday, BJP had announced names of 55 candidates for the coming elections to the 90-member Haryana assembly.
For the Uttar Pradesh assembly by-polls, the party announced three candidates for Rari in Jaunpur, Etawah and Kolasla in Varanasi.
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