The Congress on Saturday came out with the second list of 23 candidates for the Maharashtra Assembly polls scheduled for November 20 with a ‘strong’ candidate against BJP’s Maharashtra President Chandrashekhar Bawankule. Bawankule who is again in the contest for the Kamthi constituency in Nagpur district that he had won for consecutive terms in 2004, 2009, and 2014 but was dropped in 2019 will be up against Suresh Y. Bhoyar another former President of the Nagpur Zila Panchayat.
In Nagpur’s Savner constituency Congress has Chosen Anuja S. Kedar, wife of former minister and five time MLA Sunil C. Kedar. Kedar,who had earlier filed his nomination as an Independent candidate is now contesting on a Congress ticket. Daughter of former Maharashtra Speaker, as well as famous cricket administrator, SK Wankhede ,the man after whom Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium is named is an another prominent Congress candidate.
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The second list of the candidates came after the first list that had the names of 48 candidates and was released when there were rumours of talks with the Congress’s MVA ally Shiv Sena-UBT over the Vidarbha region seats.
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Other candidates in this new list are Rajesh Manavatkar (Bhusawal), Swati Wakekar (Jamod), Mahesh Gange (Akot), Shekhar Shende (Wardha), Girish Pandav (Nagpur South), Pooja Thavker (Bhandara), Dalip Banson (Arjuni-Morgaon), Rajkumar Puram (Amgaon), Vasant Purke (Ralegaon), Anil Balasaheb Mangulkar (Yavatmal), Jitendra Moghe (Arni), Sahebrao Kamble (Umarkhed), Kailas Gorantyal (Jalna), and Madhukar Deshmukh (Aurangabad East).
Other names are Vijay Patil, who will contest from Vasai, Kalu Bhadeliya from Kandivali East, Yashwant Singh from Charkop, Ganesh Kumar Yadav from Sion-Koliwada, Hemant Ogle from Srirampur, Abhay K. Salunkhe from Nilanga, and Ganpatrao Patil for Shiro).
Meanwhile, Maharashtra Congress Legislative Party Leader Vijay alias Balasaheb Thorat has possibility to meet NCP leader Sharad Pawar as well as Shiv Sena-UBT’s Uddhav Thackeray to likely finalize the remaining three including the smaller allies of seat-sharing before the nomination deadline of October 29.
