Maharashtra Lok Sabha election: Pawar vs Pawar, Rane vs Raut - A look at key constituencies and candidates in phase 3
ANI, Rane claimed that he “will win the elections one-sided, with nearly three lakh votes" and asserted that local issues like floods and unemployment would be solved within one year. Also Read: Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Will Prajwal Revanna sex scandal impact BJP- JD(S) poll prospects in Karnataka? Rane has already faced two consecutive defeats. In 2014, he lost the assembly election from Kudal to the Shiv Sena’s Vaibhav Naik.
In 2018, Rane suffered another defeat in the assembly by-election to Bandra (East). He was defeated by the then undivided Shiv Sena's Trupti Sawant, the wife of former MLA Bala Sawant, whose death necessitated the byelection. The Sangli seat will witness a three-cornered fight between sitting BJP MP Sanjaykaka Patil, Shiv Sena (UBT) candidate Chandrahar Patil and independent candidate Vishal Patil.
The seat was a point of contention between Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) constituents, the Congress and Shiv Sena (UBT). The Congress had demanded the seat, saying it was the party's stronghold. However, the Sena (UBT) announced wrestler Chandrahar Patil as its candidate.
Vishal Patil, grandson of former chief minister Vasantdada Patil, is fighting this election as an independent. Udayanraje Bhosale, a descendant of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and a Rajya Sabha member of the BJP, is seeking election from the Satara seat. He is confident of winning the election against NCP's (Sharad Pawar) candidate, MLC Shashikant Shinde, by over two lakh votes.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha election, Udayanraje had contested from undivided NCP and won the seat. However, in September 2019, he resigned from the party and joined BJP in the presence of Devendra Fadnavis. In the by-election held in October 2019, Bhosale contested as a
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