MUMBAI: The BJP on Monday released its third list of 25 candidates for the Maharashtra assembly polls, giving tickets to two Congress turncoats and the personal assistant of Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.The BJP, so far, has announced candidates for 146 seats.Polls to the 288-member Maharashtra assembly will take place on November 20, while results will be declared on November 23.Jitesh Antapurkar, who won a bypoll in 2021 on a Congress ticket and is considered close to former chief minister Ashok Chavan, has been nominated from Deglur.Chavan had left the Congress recently and joined the BJP, which made him a Rajya Sabha MP.Archana Patil-Chakurkar, daughter-in-law of Congress veteran and former Lok Sabha Speaker Shivraj Patil, has been fielded from Latur City seat. She had joined the BJP from the Congress in March this year.Sumit Wankhede, who has served as Fadnavis’s personal assistant for several years, will be the BJP’s candidate from Arvi assembly constituency.
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