MUMBAI — Former Maharashtra Minister and senior NCP leader, Nawab Malik, has filed nomination papers from Mankhurd Shivaji Nagar constituency in Mumbai from where SP leader Abu Asim Azmi is sitting MLA, according to media reports.
Nawab Malik first filed his nomination papers as an independent candidate.After filing his papers, Malik said he intends to contest the 2024 elections as a candidate of the Nationalist Congress Party (Ajit Pawar), reported Ummid.
Soon after Malik filed his nomination paper as an independent candidate, the NCP (Ajit Pawar) issued him the party’s AB form.
Maharashtra Samajwadi Party (SP) President Abu Asim Azmi has already filed his nomination papers from the constituency he is representing since 2009 – winning the state elections from here Shivaji Nagar for three consecutive elections 2009, 2014 and 2019.
Polling for the 2024 Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha Chunav will be held on November 20 and Tuesday Oct 29 was the last day to file the nomination paper.
The NCP (Ajit Pawar) is contesting the elections forming an alliance with the BJP and Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde).
The Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde) had earlier fielded Suresh Krishna Patil alias “Bullet Patil” from here. The BJP has supported Patil’s candidature from Mankhurd Shivaji Nagar as Mahayuti official candidate.
Patil had contested the 2014 assembly elections from here but had lost to Abu Asim Azmi.
The BJP is reportedly opposed to Nawab Malik contesting the election due to his alleged links with “underworld”.
Soon after Malik filed his nomination papers, BJP leader Kirit Somaiya took the social media site X and said Suresh Patil, and not Nawab Malik, is the official Mahayuti candidate from Shivaji Nagar.
Nawab Malik is the sitting MLA from Anushakti Nagar constituency. But, from here, his daughter Sana Malik has filed nomination papers as NCP (Ajit Pawar) candidate.
Sana Malik is contesting against Swara Bhasker’s husband, Fahad Ahmad in Anushakti Nagar Assembly Constituency.
Fahad Ahmad was in Samajwadi Party till two weeks ago. He later joined the NCP (Sharad Pawar) to contest from Anushakti Nagar as the party candidate.
