20 October,2024 04:24 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has announced its first set of names for the Maharashtra Assembly election, which will be held on November 20.
Deputy Chief Minister (CM) Devendra Fadnavis to fight from Nagpur SouthWest constitutency, state party chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule to contest from Kamthi.
BJP has put out 14 names for the constituencies in Mumbai in its first list for the Maharashtra Assembly election.
Speaker Rahul Narwekar will fight from Colaba while minister Mangal Prabhat Lodha has been given ticket for the Maharashtra Assembly election for Malabar Hill. The other heavyweights from the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) include Ganesh Naik from Airoli, Mihir Kotecha (Mulund), Atul Bhatkalkar (Kandivali East), former minister Vidya Thakur (Goregaon), and Ameet Satam (Andheri West). While Ashish Shelar has retained the ticket for the Bandra West seat, his brother Vinod will be fighting from Malad.
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The party has not declared names for the Versova and Borivali seats in Mumbai.
Former Maharashtra CM Ashok Chavan's daughter Shreejaya will make her electoral debut from the Bhokar seat in Nanded.
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