In Maharashtra, Bharatiya Janata Party has made Eknath Shinde the Chief Minister and BJP is also using his party in its own way. This time in the assembly elections, BJP has given tickets to many of its leaders from Eknath Shinde’s party Shiv Sena. In fact, there are many seats on which BJP leaders were active but in the case of seat distribution, those seats went to the party of Eknath Shinde and Ajit Pawar. On many seats which have gone to Eknath Shinde’s party, BJP has sent its leaders to his party and got tickets from there. This used to happen on a few seats earlier too, but this time it has become a game of wholesale prices.
Narayan Rane, former Chief Minister of Maharashtra, has moved from Shiv Sena to Congress and joined BJP. He is an MP from BJP. One of his sons, Nitish Rane, has been given ticket by BJP from Kankavali seat of Konkan. But Narayan Rane also wanted a ticket for his second son Nilesh Rane. Shinde’s party had got the Kudal seat from which he wanted to contest. So, Nilesh Rane joined his party and became a candidate from there. Similarly, there is the case of Saina NC, who was the spokesperson of BJP. Recently she also joined Eknath Shinde’s party and Shinde made her the candidate from Mumbadevi seat. She is the daughter of Nana Chudasama and after the Gujarat riots, Chudasama had opposed Narendra Modi. However, Sanjana Jadhav, daughter of former Union Minister and BJP state president Rao Saheb Danve, has also joined Shinde’s party and has got the ticket from Kanada seat. In fact, this time six big parties are included in two alliances, due to which such a situation has arisen.