Sakri: Manjula Gavit Seeks Second Term As Shinde Sena Candidate (image:facebook.com/MLA.ManjulaGavit)

Dhule, Maharashtra: Manjula Tulshiram Gavit is seeking her second term from the Sakri Assembly segment as a Shinde Sena nominee. She hopes that developmental activities undertook in the constituency during her tenure will advance her chances of victory. She is fielded against Pravin Bapu Chaure of the Congress.

In the 2019 polls, Gavit contested as an independent candidate and secured victory with 76,166 votes. He defeated BJP candidate Mohan Suryawanshi by a margin of 7,265 votes. After the polls, she joined Shiv Sena. During the Shiv Sena split in 2022, she remained with the Eknath Shinde group.

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Gavit is a former mayor of Dhule Municipal Corporation. She earlier associated with the BJP. In the 2014 and 2009 Assembly elections, she contested for the Sakri seat on a saffron party ticket but lost. In 2014, Congress candidate Dhanji Sitaram Ahire won the seat, defeating Gavit. Ahire secured 74,760 votes, while Gavit garnered 71,437 votes. In the 2009 polls, Congress candidate Yogendra Reshama Bhoye defeated Gavit by a margin of 18,944 votes.

Sakri Assembly constituency is a ST reserve seat. It is located in Dhule district in the North Maharashtra region. The 288 Assembly seats in Maharashtra will go to polls on November 20 and counting of votes will take place on November 23.

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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.