Maharashtra polls: NCP releases first list of 38 candidates, Ajit Pawar to contest from Baramati

Ajit Pawar

Nationalist Congress Party chief Ajit Pawar will contest the upcoming Assembly polls from Baramati, the party announced on Wednesday.

The NCP is contesting the polls in an alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde faction).

The party has released its first list of 38 candidates for the upcoming polls fielding Pawar from his family’s stronghold in Baramati. Chhagan Bhujbal will contest from Yeola while Dilip Walse Patil from Ambegaon.

Check the full list here:

#MaharashtraElection2024 | NCP releases its first list of 38 candidates.Deputy CM and party chief Ajit Pawar to contest from Baramati, Chhagan Bhujbal from Yeola, Dilip Walse Patil from Ambegaon. pic.twitter.com/yjkRL3KLZG
ANI (@ANI) October 23, 2024

Elections to the 288-member Maharashtra assembly will be held in a single phase on November 20 and votes will be counted on November 23.

Shiv Sena also released its first list of 45 candidates for the Maharashtra assembly polls, nominating chief minister Eknath Shinde from Kopri-Panchpakhadi in Thane city and more than half a dozen cabinet members from their respective seats.

A few days back, BJP also released its first list of 99 candidates for the upcoming elections in the state. Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis, state BJP president Chandrashekhar Bawankule, Assembly speaker Rahul Narwekar, ministers Girish Mahajan, Sudhir Mungantiwar, and Chandrakant Patil, were among the prominent faces feature in the first list.

Fadnavis is renominated from home turf Nagpur South West, Narwekar from Colaba in south Mumbai, and ministers Sudhir Mungantiwar, Girish Mahajan, and Chandrakant Patil from Ballarpur, Jamner, and Kothrud constituencies, respectively.