29 October,2024 07:38 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
Nawab Malik with his daughter Sana Malik. Pic/X
Nawab Malik on Tuesday filed his nomination from the Mankhurd Shivaji Nagar Assembly constituency as Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) candidate for the upcoming Maharashtra Assembly election 2024, reported the ANI.
After filing the nomination, Nawab Malik told ANI, "I filed a nomination from Mankhurd Shivaji Nagar Vidhan Sabha constituency as an NCP candidate. I had filed the form as an Independent candidate also. But the party has sent the AB form and we submitted it at 2.55 pm and now I am the official candidate of NCP."
Earlier, Malik had filed the nomination as an independent candidate and today was the last date for candidates to file their nominations for the Maharashtra assembly polls.
Notably, the fight in the Mankhurd-Shivaji Nagar assembly seat is that of the Muslim vote as the seat has been held by Samajwadi Party leader Abu Azmi.
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Nawab Malik expressed gratitude to the NCP leadership for confiding in him.
"I am very thankful to (Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister) Ajit Pawar, NCP leader and Rajya Sabha MP Praful Patel, and NCP leader Sunil Tatkare. They have confidence in me (to win the elections)...A huge number of voters will support me...I am very confident that this time we will win the Mankhurd Shivaji Nagar constituency," according to the ANI.
Nawab Malik, a two-time MLA from Anushakti Nagar, had earlier in the month announced that he would contest from the Mankhurd Shivaji Nagar Assembly constituency as an independent candidate after being denied a ticket by the NCP due to pressure by the Mahayuti ally Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Nawab Malik's daughter, Sana Malik is contesting from the Anushakti Nagar Assembly seat as an Ajit Pawar-led NCP candidate. She had on Monday filed her nomination, Sana Malik was accompanied by her father during her nomination filing.
The Maharashtra Assembly election 2024 are scheduled for November 20 and the counting for all 288 constituencies are set for November 23.
In the 2019 assembly elections, the BJP won 105 seats, the Shiv Sena 56, and the Congress 44. In 2014, the BJP secured 122 seats, the Shiv Sena 63, and the Congress 42.
(with ANI inputs)
