Unmesh Patil To Contest From Chalisgaon On Shiv Sena (UBT) Ticket (image:facebook.com/unmeshbjp)
Chalisgaon, Maharashtra: Being denied a ticket from Jalgaon, Unmesh Bhaiyyasaheb Patil had quit the BJP before the Lok Sabha polls and joined the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT). Patil’s walking out slightly shook the BJP’s stronghold in North Maharashtra. Though the Thackeray faction did not field him in the Lok Sabha polls, it currently nominated him for a Chalisgaon Assembly seat.
In the 2014 Assembly polls, Patil successfully contested from Chalisgaon Assembly constituency. He secured 94,754 votes and defeated Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) candidate Deshmukh Rajiv Anil by a margin of 22,380 votes.
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After his tenure as MLA, in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, he contested from Jalgaon seat for the MP post and won. He secured 7,13,874 votes, while NCP’s Gulabrao Baburao Deokar garnered 3,02,257 votes.
Worked as the state general secretary of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), Patil is known for the energy and vitality. Besides being a legislator and MP, Patil had also served as the Chairman of the Maharashtra State Co-operative Sugar Factories Federation Limited.
In the upcoming assembly polls, Patil is fielded against sitting BJP MLA Mangesh Chavan. In the 2019 polls, Chavan won the seat, defeating NCP’s Deshmukh Rajiv Anil with a margin of 4,287 votes.
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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.
The Assembly elections mark first one in the state after Shiv Sena and NCP split in 2022, and 2023 respectively.
