Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, BJP chief Chandrakant Dada Patil and minister Pankaja Munde were among 125 candidates named by BJP on Tuesday in its first list for Maharashtra assembly elections to be held across on October 21,2019
While Fadnavis will fight polls from Nagpur South West seat, Patil is set to contest from Kothrud. Among others, Manohar Bhadane has been named from Dhule rural and BJP minister Pankaja Munde from Parli.
The announcement comes a day after allies Bharatiya Janata Party and Shiv Sena issued a Press release signed by state BJP chief Chandrakant Patil and senior Shiv Sena leader Subhash Desai that confirmed both parties would contest next month's Maharashtra state elections as an alliance but did not disclose the seat-sharing formula.
The press release said the BJP, Shiv Sena, Union Minister Ramdas Athawale's Republican Party of India (A), Mahadev Jankar-led Rashtriya Samaj Paksh and Vinayak Mete-led Shiv Sangram will contest the October assembly elections in an alliance.
Both Shiv Sena and BJP have recently inducted more than 20 legislators and leaders from the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party, who could to be accommodated during the ticket distribution process.
Here's the complete first list of candidates BJP has released for Maharashtra
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