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Mumbai BJP president Ashish Shelar told a news channel on Tuesday that we will not accept tickets to anyone associated with underworld don Dawood Ibrahim. Shelar said that he will present his different stand.
Pramod Praveen PTI, MumbaiTue, 22 Oct 2024 04:11 PM share
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders have raised questions over the ticket given to an MLA from Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar-led NCP in Maharashtra’s ruling alliance Mahayuti. Mumbai BJP president Ashish Shelar on Tuesday said his party is against the candidature of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Nawab Malik for the Maharashtra Assembly elections to be held on November 20. “We will not accept tickets to anyone associated with underworld don Dawood Ibrahim,” Shelar told a news channel.
“We will not support Malik and will keep our separate stand,” he said. He was reacting to media reports that Nawab Malik Mankhurd-Shivaji, the sitting MLA from Anushakti Nagar in Mumbai South-Central parliamentary constituency, Can contest elections from Nagar and leave Anushakti Nagar constituency for his daughter Sana. Sana is planning to make her debut in electoral politics.
Nawab Malik was a minister in the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government. Malik was arrested in 2022 in the case registered by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) against Dawood and his other associates including Chhota Shakeel and Tiger Memon. Malik was granted bail on medical grounds in July this year. Following the split in the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), the faction led by Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar took MLA Malik into its fold despite objections from ally BJP.
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BJP is planning to contest on 150 seats in the state’s 288-member assembly, so that it can get 125 seats. In this exercise, BJP has fielded Ashish Shelar for the third time from Bandra West assembly constituency, while his brother Vinod Shelar will contest from Malad West seat. BJP has released its first list of 99 candidates. It has retained 71 MLAs, which include prominent faces like Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, State BJP President Chandrashekhar Bawankule, Assembly Speaker Rahul Narvekar, Ministers Girish Mahajan, Sudhir Mungantiwar and Chandrakant Patil. NCP is also going to retain the candidature of all its sitting MLAs. Nawab Malik’s candidature is decided under this formula, which Shelar has opposed.
