Maharashtra Lok Sabha elections: Shiv Sena (UBT) releases list of 17 candidates for upcoming polls

The Uddhav Thackeray faction of the Shiv Sena on Wednesday released a list of candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.

Anil Desai will contest from Mumbai South Central, Sena leader Sanjay Raut said in a post on social media platform X.

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Voting in Maharashtra will be done in five phases starting April 19. The state has contributes 48 seats to the lower house of the Parliament, second to Uttar Pradesh which has 80 seats.


Shiv Sena (UBT) has fielded Rajan Vichare from Thane, Amol Kirtikar from Mumbai North-West, and Sanjay Patil from Mumbai North-East. The UBT faction of Shiv Sena is part of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) in Maharashtra.

While the Congress, part of the MVA, released its list of candidates, NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar) is yet to officially declare its candidates in the state for the April-May Lok Sabha polls.

In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP won 23 out of 25 contested seats, while the undivided Shiv Sena secured 18 out of 23 seats.

The undivided NCP, part of the opposition alliance, contested 19 seats and won four. Following the split in 2022, the Shiv Sena, which had earlier formed a coalition government with the Congress and NCP, saw Eknath Shinde align with the BJP.