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Mumbai:In a potential source of conflict within the ruling Mahayuti, the Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has fielded Nawab Malik from Mumbais Mankhurd Shivaji Nagar constituency, despite the BJP having voiced its strong exception to his candidature...
Malik filed his nomination as the official candidate of the Ajit Pawar-led NCP Tuesday..
The party has nominated his daughter Sana Malik from her fathers current constituency, Anushaktinagar...
A source from the Shinde-led Shiv Sena confirmed the partys decision to field a candidate, Avinash Rane, against Sana Malik, but did not comment on whether the party has given an AB form to any candidate in Mankhurd Shivaji Nagar...
In his letter to Ajit Pawar in December 2023, Fadnavis had said that power comes and goes, but the nation is more important and the Ajit Pawar-led party should not include someone who is associated with Dawood Ibrahim in the alliance considering Malik is only out on medical bail and the allegations against him have not been disproved...
