– Prem Sagar Poudel
The third phase election of Lok Sabha election will be held on 23 April, 2019. The third phase election of Maharastra for 14 seats will compete 249 candidate in the election. 25,700,000 voters will cast the vote in this election. Pune and Madha have the highest candidates will compete 31-31 and the lowest candidate 9 in Satara election zone. Except this, 14 candidates in Jalgaun, 12 in Raber, 20 in Jalana, 23 in Aurangabad, 16 in Rayagadh, 18 in Baramati, 19 in Ahamadnagar, 12 in Sangali, 12 in Ratnagiri-Sindhudurga, 15 in Kolhapur, 17 in Hatkarnagle will compete in this election.
For the third phase election 141,113 officials are appointed. 17,192 officials are in by stand. In this third phase election 13,319,010 male, 12,470,076 female and 652 other will cast their vote.
Jalgaun: North Maharastra’s Jalagaun has been the fort zone of BJP for 20 years. BJP’s senior leader A. T. Patil aka Nana Patil is the MP from this region. On his place, Ms. Smita Udaya Bagh BJP’s Province Women Unit Chairperson has given the ticket but this decision has cancelled after the huge oppose, and given the ticket for the election candidate legislator Unmesh Patil. BJP’s candidate Unmesh Patil will compete with RKP’s Gulab Raw Devkar. In this region BJP has the internal struggle as well. There was fighting with the own party cadres as well. Here are 1,593,370 voters.
Raber: BJP has given the ticket to Mrs. Raksha Nikhil Khadse to compete with Congress candidate Ullas Patil in the election. Mrs. Raksha Nikhil Khadse is the daughter in law of BJP’s leader Eknath Khadse. He was fired from his minister’s post due to corruption case in 2015. Yogendra Biththal Kolte will compete in the election from BSP, though Banchit Bahujan Aaghadi has announced Nitin Prahlad Kalelkar as the candidate. Four independent candidates will compete in the election in Raber.
Jalana: This parliamentary area is the fort of BJP. Congress candidate Bilas Keshabraj will compete BJP’s MP since 1999 to now and province chairman of BJP Rawshaheb Danbe Patil. In 2014 Lok Sabha election Rawshaheb Danbe Patil defeated the Congress candidate Bilas Keshabraj Autade. In that election Mr. Danbe got 591,428 votes and Mr. Autade got 384,630 votes. In the 2014 election congress got second position and BSP in the third postion.
Aurangabad: This election area is the fort of ShivaSena. In this election 23 candidates are in competition. In 2014 electin ShivaSena’s leaders Chandrakanta Khaire defeated Congress candidate Suresh Patil. Mr. Khaire got 520,902 votes and Mr. Suresh Patil got 358,902 votes only. Except 1998’s election from 1989 to 2014 all the election ShivaSena got victory in this region. Voters in this area are 1,589,393.
Pune: BJP has selected province minister Girish Wapat removing the current MP of Pune Anil Shirole. Congress General Secretary Mohan Joshi will compete Girish Wapat in this election. BJP’s Mr. Wapat is the cabinet minister of Maharashtra as well. 1,835,836 are the voters in this region.
Baramati: Baramati is known for the fort of Pawar Family. RKP’s Chairman Mr. Sharad Pawar has won the election continuously seven times from Baramati. Daughter of Sharad Ms. Pawar Supriya Sule has been competing the election continuously third time from RKP. Kanchan Kul from BJP will compete Ms. Supriya Sule in this election. BJP’s Chairman Amit Shah and PM Narendra Modi requested the people to eliminate the Pawar family and give vote to BJP candidate Kanchan Kul for victory.
Ahamadnagar: Ahamadnagar is known for the Bikhe Patil Family’s fort. Congress leader or Maharashtra’s opposition party leader Radha Krishna Bikhe Patil’s son Dr. Sujaya Bikhe Patil suddenly changed Congress party and enter into the BJP; as a result this election region is much more interesting. BJP has given the ticket to Dr. Sujaya Bikhe Patil deposed own MP Dilip Gandhi. RKP legislator Sangram Jagtap will compete BJP’s candidate Dr. Sujaya. Total voters in this region are 1,699,408.
Sangali: In this election area late Basanta Raw Patil’s son Bishal Prakash Bapu Patil will compete the election from Swabhimani Shetkari Sangathan. BJP elect the current MP of BJP Sanjaya Kaka Patil to oppose the Mr. Patil. The total voters in this area are 1,649,107.
Satara: Two times MP from RKP Mr. Udayanraje Bhosle is going to compete this election. He is the descendent of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj as well. His main competition will be with Narendra Patil of BJP. Narendra Patil Mathadi is the son of famous leader of Kaamgaro’s Annashaheb Patil. The total voters in this area are 1,719,998.
Ratnagiri-Sindhudurga: In this region the triangle competition will be held. Ratnagiri-Sindhudurga is the fort of former chief minister Narayan Rane and his family. Narayan Rane’s son Nilesh Rane defeated the Central Minister Suresh Prabhu in the election of 2009. Sivasena has given the ticket to their MP Binayak Raut again for this election. Nabinchandra Bandibdekar from Congress will compete in this election area. This area is the prestige of both Mr. Rane and Sivasena. The total voters in this area are 1,367,361.
Kolhapur: This area is the fort of RKP. In 2014’s election RKP’s Dhananjaya Mahadik had defeated the ShivaSena’s candidate Sadashiv Rao Mandalik. In this election as well both party’s same candidate will compete in this region. The total voters in this area are 1,758,300.
Hatkanangale: Two times MP Swabhiman Shetkari Sangathan’s leader Raju Shetti was in NDA before this. And this time he is in Congress-RKP leading Great-Alignment. His main competition will be with ShivaSena’s candidate Dhairashil Mane. Mr. Mane is the son of RKP’s MP Navodita Mane. The total voters in this area are 1,630,598.
The total seats of Maharashtra are 48, 17 seats election was held in the first and second phase election already. BJP is in the front with very hard competition though.
