The Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena`s Hemant Godse and Union minister Dr Bharati Pawar on Thursday filed their nominations for Nashik and Dindori constituencies in north Maharashtra, respectively for Lok Sabha elections 2024, reported the PTI.

Shiv Sena candidate and Maharashtra CM Shinde`s son Shrikant Shinde also filed his nomination in Kalyan constituency near Mumbai.

The ruling Mahayuti alliance of the BJP, CM Shinde-led Shiv Sena and the Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) took out a grand procession before Dr Bharati Pawar and Hemant Godse, both sitting MPs, filed their papers at the Nashik collector`s office, as per the PTI.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis, district guardian minister Dadaji Bhuse, state ministers Girish Mahajan, Chhagan Bhujbal and other leaders of the alliance were present on the occasion.

CM Shinde expressed confidence that Nashik and Dindori were bastions of the Shiv Sena and both the Mahayuti candidates will win with huge margins as Prime Minister Narendra Modi has achieved in ten years what Congress could not do in 60 years, according to the PTI.

Hemant Godse, notably, had defeated Chhagan Bhujbal from Maharashtra`s Nashik in 2014, and his nephew Sameer Bhujbal in 2019.

Chhagan Bhujbal was keen on contesting from the seat this time, but pulled out of the race later.

Hemant Godse`s main rival in the election would be Rajabhau Waje of the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT).

Dr Bharati Pawar was earlier with the undivided Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). She joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and won from Maharashtra`s Dindori seat in 2019 in the first attempt, and was also made a Union Minister of State for Health, as per the PTI.

Dr Bharati Pawar will face Dr Bhaskar Bhagare of the Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP-SP).

Meanwhile, in Kalyan, Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis held a massive roadshow for Shrikant Shinde, the sitting MP from Kalyan seat, before he filed his nomination.

The roadshow saw the presences of hundreds of supports of CM Shinde`s Shiv Sena and Mahayuti alliance in Maharashtra.

Meanwhile, except for Palghar, the BJP-led Mahayuti alliance has announced its candidates for all other seats in the state. Friday is the last date to file the nomination for Palghar and other Lok Sabha seats in Mumbai.

(With PTI inputs)

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