In some constituencies, the BJP has allotted tickets to family members of satraps including Sulbha Gaikwad, wife of sitting MLA Ganpat Gaikwad who is in jail for allegedly shooting at a rival politician in a police station.In Mumbai, the BJP has fielded its Mumbai unit chief Ashish Shelar from the Bandra West assembly segment for the third time, while his brother Vinod Shelar will test the electoral waters from the Malad West seat.Vinod will challenge sitting Congress MLA and former minister Aslam Shaikh.Sulbha Gaikwad will contest from the Kalyan east constituency; Pratibha Pachpute will replace her husband Babanrao Pachpute from Srigonda segment in Ahilyanagar district.Chinchwad MLA Ashwini Jagtap has been replaced by her brother-in-law Shankar Jagtap.Ashwini had won the bypoll from Chinchwad after the death of her husband and sitting MLA Laxman Jagtap.Perhaps the most high-profile candidate is Srijaya Chavan, daughter of former Congress politician Ashok Chavan.She will make her electoral debut from the Bhokar constituency, represented by her father, in Nanded district. Chavan senior switched to the BJP on the eve of the Lok Sabha elections. He is now a Rajya Sabha member.The BJP has given Mahesh Baldi, an independent MLA from Uran in Navi Mumbai, a ticket for the November 20 polls.Former Congressman and Independent MLA Prakash Awade has made way for his son Rahul Awade in Ichalkaranji.Anuradha Chavan, chairperson of the Phulambri APMC and member of the state BJP working committee, has been nominated from the Phulambri constituency in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar district place of Haribhau Bagade, who held the seat before being appointed as the Governor of Rajasthan.MLC Ram Shinde is fielded from the Karjat Jamkhed constituency.Shinde will take on sitting MLA Rohit Pawar of NCP (SP), the grandson of Sharad Pawar.The BJP is looking to contest around 150 seats in the state but is involved in tough bargaining with its allies Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena and Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar-led NCP.
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