Nawab Malik’s celebration, NCP (Ajit Pawar faction) has been silent about his candidature.
Mumbai:
Nawab Malik, chief of Nationalist Congress Party’s Ajit Pawar faction and an enormous face in Maharashtra politics, has introduced that he’ll contest from Mankhurd Shivaji Nagar – the place Samajwadi Party’s Abu Azmi is the three-time sitting legislator. The Samajwadi Party continues to be ready for a choice on seat sharing from the Maha Vikas Aghadi. It had requested for 2 seats and the celebration is way from happy concerning the delay. Abu Azmi has given a number of deadlines to the MVA, however is but to behave on it.
Mankhurd Shivaji Nagar, a part of the North East Mumbai Lok Sabha constituency, is a Muslim-dominated space. So whereas Abu Azmi is assured, if Nawab Malik recordsdata nomination, it might now not be a straightforward election for the SP candidate.
Nawab Malik’s celebration has been silent about his candidature, though it has introduced 49 candidates already. There continues to be no readability on what number of seats every celebration of the ruling alliance is contesting.
Sources within the BJP have indicated that the celebration is just not in favour of candidates accused in prison circumstances. Many consider his ticket was minimize by NCP because of the BJP opposition, which has created sympathy for him among the many Muslim voters, who type a considerable chunk of the citizens.
Nawab Malik was arrested in February 2022 by the Enforcement Directorate in an alleged cash laundering case involving mafia don Dawood Ibrahim and his associates. He was granted bail in July by the Supreme Court on well being grounds.
In this backdrop, Mr Malik’s feedback on has candidature has triggered hypothesis on whether or not he can be backed by his celebration or contest as Independent.
“I shall be submitting my nomination on October 29 from the Mankhurd Shivaji Nagar Assembly constituency,’ Mr Malik had stated. “The public has urged me to contest elections from right here. The public may be very upset with the hooliganism and drug enterprise which is occurring in Mankhurd Shivaji Nagar… I do not care who’s opposing me, the general public is supporting me and I’ll contest the elections,” he was quoted as saying by information company ANI.
Mr Azmi has remarked that Nawab Malik’s candidature is a BJP ploy and their outward reluctance to area him simply an eyewash. Many say his presence within the contest will cut up the Muslim vote, and assist the BJP/Sena/NCP candidate win.
In this yr’s Lok Sabha elections, the North East Mumbai seat was received by Sanjay Patil of Sharad Pawar’s faction of the NCP. The BJP-Shiv Sena-NCP (Ajit Pawar) alliance or the Mahayuti had fielded Mihir Kotecha.
Nawab Malik’s daughter Sana Malik is a NCP (Ajit Pawar) candidate from the Anushaktinagar seat. She will contest in opposition to Fahad Ahmed of Sharad Pawar’s NCP on this seat. Fahad is the husband of movie actress Swara Bhaskar.
Polling for Maharashtra meeting elections shall be held in a single section on November 20. Counting of votes shall be achieved on November 23.