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Mumbai: With the six main parties in the state fighting amongst themselves to contest a larger number of Lok Sabha seats, aspiring candidates are finding it difficult to pick a banner they will fight under in the ensuing polls..
Among them is Maharashtra Navnirman Senas Vasant More, who quit the party to contest the Lok Sabha polls; former deputy chief minister Vijaysinh Mohite Patil who is backing his nephew Dhairyasheel, a BJP leader who has opposed the partys decision to renominate Ranjitsinh Nimbalkar from the Madha constituency in Solapur; NCP MLA Nilesh Lanke, who resigned from the party and joined Sharad Pawar faction to contest the polls from Ahmednagar; Jyoti Mete, widow of Shiv Sangram chief Late Vinayak Mete, who is keen to contest from Beed and has met NCP founder Sharad Pawar as well as BJP leader and deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis; Congress MLA Raju Parve from Vidarbha, who joined the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena days before his candidature was announced from the Ramtek constituency; and former Congress MLA Namdev Usendi, who resigned from the party and joined the BJP after not being nominated from the Gadchiroli constituency..
Senior NCP leader and former deputy chief minister Vijaysinh Mohite-Patil wields considerable clout in western Maharashtras Solapur district, even though he did not play an active role in the party for over five years..
Though Shiv Sangram was part of the Mahayuti, Jyotis first choice was the opposition coalition and she held a series of meetings with NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar and other leaders to discuss her candidature..
She also held a meeting with deputy chief minister and BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis last week, who reportedly urged her not to join the NCP and assured her of membership in the state legislature in lieu of supporting the BJP candidate Pankaja Munde..
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