MUMBAI: After hectic daylong negotiations with Congress and NCP (SP), Shiv Sena (UBT) Wednesday introduced its first record of 65 candidates for the meeting polls. It has renominated 14 of its 15 sitting MLAs and declared nominees for 13 seats in Mumbai, together with Aaditya Thackeray from Worli and Aaditya’s cousin Varun Sardesai from Bandra East.
Whereas naming candidates for 12 seats in broader Mumbai Metropolitan Area, the get together has fielded Kedar Dighe, nephew of the late Shiv Sena chief Anand Dighe, from Kopri-Pachpakhadi in opposition to CM Eknath Shinde, who speaks of Anand Dighe as his mentor.
The one sitting MLA not included within the first record is Ajay Chaudhuri from Sewri.
Whereas Varun Sardesai has been named from Bandra East although that is without doubt one of the seats on which there’s a dispute between UBT Sena and Congress, Uddhav Thackeray’s get together has not named candidates from different disputed seats within the metropolis like Versova, Colaba, Byculla, Ghatkopar West and Chandivli. A few of these seats are prone to be given to Congress and NCP (SP).
Nevertheless, exterior Mumbai, the get together has introduced candidates on sure disputed seats like Ramtek, the place it has fielded Vishal Barbate; Nandgaon, from the place Ganesh Dhatrak will contest; Solapur South, which Amar Patil will battle, and Karjat, the place Nitin Sawant has been picked. Sena (UBT) has named 7 candidates from Marathwada. No Muslim candidate seems on its first record.
In Mumbai, the get together has fielded Sameer Desai from Goregaon and Anant Nar from Jogeshwari East. Amol Kirtikar, who misplaced Lok Sabha polls from Mumbai North West, has not been given an meeting ticket although he was stated to be within the reckoning from Goregaon and Jogeshwari East.
On a number of seats the place the sitting MLAs moved away and joined the Shiv Sena led by CM Shinde, the Sena (UBT) has given an opportunity to contemporary faces.
