Denied ticket by BJP, Navi Mumbai BJP chief Sandeep Naik joins Sharad Pawar’s NCP
Sandeep Naik will likely be the NCP (SP) candidate from the Belapur seat in Maharashtra Assembly elections 2024, while his father Ganesh Naik is the BJP candidate from the neighbouring Airoli constituency.
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Sandeep Naik is now likely to be the NCP (SP) candidate for Belapur after being welcomed into the party at Vashi's Vishnudas Bhave auditorium by NCP (SP) state chief Jayant Patil.
(Instagram/@isandeepgnaik)Navi Mumbai BJP district chief and two-time MLA Sandeep Naik on Tuesday joined the Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party after the BJP denied him a ticket to contest the Maharashtra Assembly elections 2024 from the Belapur constituency.
He is now likely to be the NCP (SP) candidate for Belapur after being welcomed into the party at Vashi’s Vishnudas Bhave auditorium by NCP (SP) state chief Jayant Patil.
Incidentally, Sandeep’s father and former Maharashtra minister Ganesh Naik is the BJP candidate from the neighbouring Airoli constituency.
In its first list of 99 candidates for Maharashtra Assembly elections, the BJP declared incumbent MLA Manda Mhatre the party candidate from Belapur. Sandeep, who won from the Airoli constituency as a candidate for the undivided NCP in 2009 and 2014, had earlier declared that he would contest the elections from Belapur. In 2019, Sandeep switched to the BJP from the NCP and took a back seat in the Assembly polls.
Ganesh Naik had already said Sandeep was free to make his own decisions. He also said he would not try to stop Sandeep if he decided to leave the BJP.
The BJP announced its first list of candidates for the Maharashtra Assembly elections 2024 on Sunday. Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis will contest from Nagpur South West, and state BJP chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule, who was not expected to contest, will run from Kamthi.
The Election Commission of India recently announced that the Maharashtra Assembly elections to elect 288 MLAs will occur in a single phase on November 20. The counting of votes is scheduled for November 23.
The BJP, which is in alliance with Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena and Ajit Pawar’s NCP in Maharashtra, recently retained power in Haryana after defying exit poll predictions and winning the Assembly polls there.
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