Maharashtra: BJP announces election chiefs’ for Lok Sabha, Assembly constituencies

MUMBAI — The BJP in Maharashtra on Thursday announced election chiefs’ for 48 Lok Sabha and 288 Legislative Assembly seats in the state.

The election chiefs will work for poll preparation and management, state BJP chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule said at a press conference here.

“In alliance with Chief Minister Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena, we will contest Lok Sabha and Assembly elections under the leadership of Shinde and Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis. We will win more than 45 Lok Sabha and more than 200 Assembly seats,” he said.

Maharashtra has 48 Lok Sabha seats and 288 Assembly constituencies.

The nivadnuk pramukhs’ (election chiefs) include Fadnavis’s personal assistant (PA) Sumeet Wankhede, who has been given the charge of the Wardha parliamentary seat.

In the seats contested by the Shiv Sena, the BJP election chief will work to ensure the victory of the Sena candidate, Bawankule said.

The selection of BJP candidates will be done by the party’s parliamentary board, he said. “To fulfil the BJP’s vision of a developed state and country, we need a strong government and organisation. Our endeavour is to achieve that,” he said.

The party aims to reach out to 60,000 people in each Assembly constituency in the next one month as part of its modi@9′ initiative to make people aware of the Modi government’s performance over the last nine years, he said.

Union home minister Amit Shah will address a rally at Nanded in central Maharashtra on June 10 and the party is also planning Modi’s rally in the state, Bawankule said.