No NCP, Cong face in Chinchwad, Bhosari seats

No NCP, Cong face in Chinchwad, Bhosari seats

Pimpri: In a setback to the NCP and Congress, there are no official candidates of these two parties in Chinchwad and Bhosari Assembly seats.

The NCP is forced to sponsor an independent, Vilas Lande and Shiv Sena rebel Rahul Kalate in Bhosari and Chinchwad seats, respectively. In the seat-sharing arrangement with the Congress, the NCP had kept all the three Assembly constituencies in Pimpri Chinchwad with itself. However, in the absence of a strong candidate, NCP was forced to support Lande in Bhosari. In Chinchwad constituency, its official candidate and the party’s City Unit Working President Prashant Shitole’s nomination papers were rejected in the absence of the party’s AB form.

Consequently, the NCP has been forced to support Shiv Sena rebel  Rahul Kalate. 

In Pimpri, the NCP had given its AB forms both to former MLA Anna Bansode and corporator Sulakshana Dhar-Shilwant. In scrutiny, Dhar-Shilwant’s nomination form as an independent was accepted and the other form was rejected. However, she withdrew her candidature.

The loss of its faces in Chinchwad and Bhosari Assembly seats is a major embarrassment for the NCP in its former bastion. 

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