Challenging the Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) in his home constituency of Baramati, Maharashtra BJP chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule on Tuesday said the saffron party and the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena alliance will win over 45 seats in the 2024 elections. Will win the constituency together. in the state. The NCP hit back saying that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) should stop ‘daydreaming’ to snatch Baramati from sitting MP Supriya Sule. Bawankule is on a visit to Baramati to interact with BJP workers ahead of Union Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s visit to the constituency.
Baramati in Pune district has been a stronghold of Sharad Pawar, who represented the constituency several times, including during his days in the Indian National Congress. His daughter Supriya Sule is the sitting MP and nephew Ajit Pawar is an MLA. The BJP has launched a campaign to expand the party’s base in more than 140 Lok Sabha constituencies across the country, including Baramati and 15 other seats in Maharashtra. Bawankule told Marathi news channel ABP Majha that the BJP has started a program to reach out to every voter in these 16 constituencies.
Judging by the performance of Narendra Modi Various welfare schemes for the poor launched by the government and the Center and the Eknath Shinde-Devendra Fadnavis government in the last eight years, I am sure we will change the opinion of the people. Once people’s opinion changes, big forts fall.”
Bawankule said Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led BJP and Shiv Sena will win over 45 of the total 48 Lok Sabha seats in Maharashtra, including Baramati, in the 2024 elections. Elaborating on the factors that shaped the BJP’s optimism to win Baramati, Bawankule said, without naming the NCP, that the party representing Baramati lacks foresight. He cited the political fallout of the Congress to target the NCP.
“After being in power for 55 years, Congress lost. Look at the condition of Congress. Congress lost its mind, it lost its vision and when leaders start working to save their posts, their fortresses fall. Huh.” Something similar is happening in Baramati. In Baramati, there is no sight. The party (which is in power here) lacks vision. There is a group of leaders called NCP and those who are elected from this group work for themselves.”
When asked about the selection of candidates for the Lok Sabha constituencies, the BJP leader said that the central leadership will select the candidates. He said that ministers have been entrusted with the responsibility of visiting 16 Lok Sabha constituencies.
Bawankule also visited Sharad Pawar’s native village Katewadi. In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, BJP candidate Kanchan Kul, wife of Daund MLA Rahul Kul, lost to Sule by a margin of over 1.55 lakh votes. In the last Lok Sabha elections, the BJP had contested 25 seats in Maharashtra and won 23, while the party’s then ally Shiv Sena won 18 of the 23 seats. Throwing light on Bawankule’s statement, the NCP said that the BJP should stop dreaming to win Baramati.
NCP chief spokesperson Mahesh Taapsee said, “BJP president Chandrashekhar Bawankule claimed that his party will win Baramati Lok Sabha constituency in 2024. This claim will never see the light of day. Stop dreaming about BJP winning Baramati constituency. should be done.” He said BJP leaders are known for making rhetoric to grab media attention and Bawankule’s statement should not be taken seriously.
“Supriya Sule is more known as a social leader and her contribution to the Baramati Lok Sabha constituency is well known. She has been honored with the prestigious ‘Sansad Ratna’ award seven times. She won the ‘Parliament’ in 16th Honored as ‘Maharatna’ in Lok Sabha and as ‘Sansad Vishisht Ratna’ in the 17th Lok Sabha.” All these awards were presented to him by the Modi government. “Bawankule should tell us how many BJP MPs from Maharashtra have been given equal respect time and again for their parliamentary performances,” Taapsee said.
Taking a sarcasm, he said it will be interesting to see how Sitharaman, who has never won any Lok Sabha election, will campaign against Sule.
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