Fierce Battle Between NCP (SCP) And BJP In Baglan
Nashik, Maharashtra: Baglan Assembly constituency is located in the Nashik district. In the upcoming polls, Dipika Sanjay Chavan of the NCP (Sharad Pawar) is in direct contest with sitting BJP MLA Dilip Manglu Borse.
This is the third time both leaders encounter a face-off in the assembly polls. In the 2019 polls, Borse won the election with 94,683 votes. He defeated Chavan by a margin of 33,694 votes. In the previous 2014 polls, Dipika won the seat, defeating Borse with a margin of 4,181 votes. She secured 68,434 votes, while Borse garnered 64,253 votes.
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The Baglan constituency is a ST reserve seat. The assembly segment is considered a BJP stronghold. However, in the past three times the fight between NCP and BJP in the assembly polls, has given a character of unpredictability to the constituency. Dipika has been quite active in the assembly segment in the past five years, raising questions and demanding Borse’s accountability on issues pertaining to the constituency. This signals a fierce fight likely to take place between Borse and Dipika in the election.
Dipika is a member of the Maharashtra State Commission for Women. There were reports of Borse quitting the BJP and joining Congress since there were speculations at first that former Union Minister of State Bharti Pawar was being considered for the Baglan seat. But, dismissing the defection rumours, Borse stated that his family’s DNA is anti-Congress.
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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 Assembly elections mark first one in the state after Shiv Sena and NCP split in 2022, and 2023 respectively.
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.
