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In Pune city’s Kasba assembly seat, there is a contest between BJP’s Hemant Rasane and Congress’s Ravindra Dangekar, who is backed by the Maha Vikas Agadi (MVA) alliance of the Congress, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the Shiv Sena (Udhav). Balasaheb Thackeray).
In Chinchwad, an industrial town near the city of Pune, the contest is between Ashwini Jagtap of the BJP and Nana Kate of the NCP.
There are 510 polling centers and 5,68,954 registered voters in Chinchwad and 215 polling centers and 2,75,428 registered voters in Kasba constituency.
Chief Minister Eknath Shind, Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, NCP chief Sharad Pawar and party leader Ajit Pawar, state Congress president Nana Patole, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aditya Thackeray and others campaigned in the two constituencies in the last 10 days.
Congress candidate Dangekar went on a hunger strike on Saturday after alleging that the BJP distributed money to voters. He called off the strike after the police assured to investigate the matter.
Earlier on Thursday, Uddhav Thackeray directed his party workers to support the candidates of their allies at the MBA, claiming that the BJP is its main political rival.
Although Thackeray himself did not join the campaign, his son Aditya Thackeray held a road show in Pune. The counting will take place on March 2.
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