Maharashtra polls: Uddhav Sena releases first candidate list, Aaditya Thackeray to fight from Worli

The Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) on Wednesday released its first list of candidates for the upcoming Assembly elections in Maharashtra. The list of 65 candidates included former minister Aaditya Thackeray, who will contest from his present seat in central Mumbai’s Worli.

Polling for the 288-member Maharashtra Assembly will take place in a single phase on November 20. The counting of votes will take place on November 23, alongside that of the Jharkhand elections.

Earlier on Wednesday, the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi coalition comprising the Uddhav Thackeray-led faction, the Nationalist Congress Party group led by Sharad Pawar and the Congress agreed to contest 85 seats each in the Maharashtra Assembly elections. The negotiations for the remaining seats were still on

The Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) was the first constituent of the alliance to release a list of candidates. The Congress and Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) are yet to release their lists.

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शिवसेना (उद्धव बाळासाहेब ठाकरे) पक्षाची अधिकृत उमेदवारांची पहिली यादी. pic.twitter.com/QAJ01ce7ds— ShivSena - शिवसेना Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray (@ShivSenaUBT_) October 23, 2024

Apart from Aaditya Thackeray, his cousin and Yuva Sena leader Varun Sardesai has been fielded from the Bandra (East) constituency in the city. The Yuva Sena is the youth wing of the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray).

The party has fielded Kedar Dighe...

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