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Mumbai: The BJP Sunday announced its first list of 99 candidates for the 20 November Maharashtra assembly elections, repeating most of the incumbents and giving tickets to family members of several party leaders...
The party has brought back Chandrashekhar Bawankule, the state BJP president whose name was dropped from the 2019 list, to contest from his old constituency of Kamthi in Nagpur district..
It has also fielded Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis again from his stronghold, Nagpur South West...
The Mahayuti, which comprises the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena, Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the BJP, is yet to hammer out a final seat-sharing formula...
Mihir Kotecha, who lost the Lok Sabha election from Mumbai North East constituency this year, has been given a ticket from Mulund, a constituency he had won in the 2019 polls...
