Mumbai confidential: Sailing in 3 boats

AMID POLITICAL shifts and uncertainty that has affected many politicians, some are trying to hedge their bets to ensure political survival. The family which takes the cake in this political hedging is Nashik’s Gholap family. Last week, former minister Babanrao Gholap dumped Shiv Sena UBT to join the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena.

Interestingly, his son, former MLA Yogesh Gholap, continues to be with Sena UBT while his daughter Tanuja Gholap is with BJP, with both aiming for a ticket from Deolali in the Assembly elections slated later this year.

Spoiler role

All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul-Muslimeen contested only one seat in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections in the state, polling 3.89 lakh votes to see Imitiyaz Jaleel scrape through to a win in Aurangabad.