Dhule City: Anil Gote To Contest On Shiv Sena (UBT) Ticket This Time (image:facebook.com/AnilGote123)
Anil Anna Gote, who previously won the multiple elections from Dhule City, is a Shiv Sena (UBT) nominee for the seat. He is fielded against BJP’s Anup Agarwal.
Gote’s political career spans across different political parties. A former journalist, he started with the Samajwadi Janata Party and won the election from Dhule City in 1999 on a party ticket. In 2009, he contested from the constituency again as a Loksangram Party candidate and won. He defeated the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) candidate with a margin of 28,741 votes.
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Gote then moved to the BJP and contested the Assembly polls. In the 2014 polls, he contested from Dhule City and won the seat by garnering 57,780 votes. He defeated NCP candidate Rajwardhan Kadambande by a margin of 12,928 votes.
In October, weeks ahead of the Assembly polls, Gate joined Thackeray Sena and is contesting from Dhule City.
Gote spent four years in jail since his name was connected as one of the main accused in the infamous fake stamp paper scam known as a Telgi scam. But he was never convicted. Gote was arrested in July 2003 and released on bail in June 2007. He was being accused as a close associate of Telgi and claimed that he used his political influence to get the latter his first stamp vending licence. As per the reports, fake stamp papers worth crores of rupees were sold across seven states between 1995 and 2003 as part of the scheme.
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The 288 Assembly seats in Maharashtra will go to polls on November 20 and counting of votes will take place on November 23.
The ruling Mahayuti alliance consists of the BJP, the Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led breakaway faction of the Shiv Sena, and the deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar’s faction of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). The opposition alliance comprise the INDIA bloc’s MVA or the Maha Vikas Aghadi, which has the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray), or SS (UBT) led by former CM Uddhav Thackeray, the NCP (SP) faction led by Sharad Pawar and the Congress.
