Mumbai: Although Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis are constantly giving assurances that they will fight the upcoming Lok Sabha and Legislative Assembly elections together as an alliance, it seems that BJP has started preparing to fight both the elections on its own. It is being said that the BJP has already made preparations if the time comes to fight the elections on its own on Thursday after declaring the election chief for 48 Lok Sabha and 288 assembly constituencies in the state.
Chief Minister Eknath Shinde rebelled against the Shiv Sena and formed a government with the BJP in the state. Since the formation of the government, Shinde and Fadnavis have been saying that the BJP-Shiv Sena (Shinde faction) will contest all elections in the state as an alliance. On the one hand, the determination to fight the elections together is being expressed, but on the other hand, the BJP has created an atmosphere by organizing tours of Union Ministers in 48 Lok Sabha constituencies. Now BJP’s state president Chandrashekhar Bawankule in a press conference announced the election chief for the Lok Sabha and assembly constituencies and gave a clear indication that the party is preparing to fight on its own. However, at the same time, it was clarified that ‘as we will contest all upcoming elections in alliance, our election chief will also work for Shiv Sena’. Bawankule also clarified that ‘the Chief Election Officer appointed by the party will cooperate with Shiv Sena candidates as well as BJP. He also mentioned that ‘BJP-Shiv Sena alliance is determined to win 45 Lok Sabha and more than 200 seats in Legislative Assembly’.
Long life of Chief Minister Eknath Shinde. BJP has nominated Shashikant Kamble for the Kalyan Lok Sabha constituency represented by Srikant Shinde, and MLA Prasad Lad for the South-Central Mumbai Lok Sabha constituency represented by Shiv Sena group leader Rahul Shewale. Besides, MLA Yogesh Sagar for Mumbai North, MLA Amit Satam for Mumbai North-West, Bhalchandra Shirsat for Mumbai North-East, Parag Alwani for Mumbai North-Central, Mangalprabhat Lodha for Mumbai South, Kedar Nanaji Aher for Nashik, Balasaheb Sanap for Dindori, Rajendra Gondkar for Shirdi, Balasaheb Wakade for Ahmednagar. , Dr. for Jalgaon. The names of Radheshyam Chaudhary, Nandu Mahajan for Raver, Rajvardhan Kadambande for Dhule and Tushar Randhe for Nandurbar have been announced as Chief Election Officers.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah will hold a meeting in Nanded on June 10 as part of the BJP’s ongoing public relations campaign to mark the ninth anniversary of the Modi government. National President J. P. Nadda will also hold a meeting in the state. In this campaign, the achievements of the Modi government will be brought to the common man. Efforts are on to arrange a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi for this campaign. ‘Booklet informing about the achievements of Modi government and Shinde-Fadnavis government will be distributed door to door. Party workers are going to reach 3 crore families through this,” said Chandrasekhar Bawankule.
