Mumbai: Nationalist Congress President (NCP) SP has declared its third list of candidates on Wednesday. Shashikant Shinde will contest election from Satara Loksabha constituency and gave seat to Shriram Patil from Raver, Jalgaon constituency.
Although, BJP has not declared their candidate from Satara but there are chances to give seat to Udayanraje Bhosale, a Maratha leader. Apart from that Patil will contest against Raksha Khadse of BJP.
Sharad Pawar and Jayant Patil had tried to pitted Prithviraj Chavan for the Satara seat but he refused to contest on NCP SP symbol and demanded seat for Congress. NCP SP party had also offer seat to Shrinivas Patil it's former MP but he refused the offer citing health reason and requested Pawar to give seat for his son but Pawar was not agree for it.
Moreover, Shriram Patil is well known Social activist from Jalgaon. He was in BJP. He joined NCP SP party on Tuesday and immediately he was given ticket to Raver. Raver constituency is BJP dominated seat. Raksha Kahdse has won the seat in last two elections from Raver and BJP is confident about her on third time.
.jpg)
.jpg)
NCP SP list came after MVA declared its seat sharing formula on Tuesday. As per formula Shivsena will contest 21, Congress 17 and NCP SP contesting 10 seats. So far NCP SP has declared nine candidates name but not declared contestant for Madha, Solapur constituency.
.png)
