BJP-Shiv Sena to start poll campaign in Maharashtra from March 24

| PTI | Mar 13, 2019, 13:16 IST

MUMBAI: The BJP-Shiv Sena coalition will kick-start its Lok Sabha poll campaign from

Kolhapur

district in Maharashtra on March 24, a leader said on Wednesday.

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Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and his cabinet colleagues visited Sena president Uddhav Thackeray's residence here on Tuesday night to finalise their poll campaign plans, according to a source.

"The state-level leaders will launch the election campaign from Kolhapur on March 24," a BJP leader said.

Leaders and workers of both the parties from

Vidarbha

, Marathwada, Mumbai and North Maharashtra would hold three to four meetings in their respective regions before the first rally, a Sena leader said.

Maharashtra has 48 Lok Sabha seats, the second highest in the country after Uttar Pradesh which has 80 seats.

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The BJP and Shiv Sena have agreed to fight 25 and 23 seats, respectively, in the state.

Lok Sabha elections for total 543 seats in the country will be held over seven phases, beginning April 11 and ending May 19, and results would be announced on May 23.

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Sanjiv Reddy

2131 days ago

THIS GREAT ALLY WILL HELP LOOT KING CHAI A LOT ? HA..HA..IGNORE WHAT THE OPPOSITION SAYS : LET US LISTEN TO THE NDA ALLY ! WITHOUT THE CONGRESS, THE SHIV SENA EDITORIAL IN SAMNA SAID, INDIA WOULD HAVE NOW “BEEN LIKE SOMALIA” OR BURUNDI”. NEEDLING THE BJP FURTHER, AN EDITORIAL IN ''SAAMANA'' HAILED THE DEVELOPMENT WORKS DONE BY CONGRESS GOVERNMENTS AT THE CENTRE AND TARGETED MODI, SAYING HE IS NOT READY TO ADMIT THE "CHAOS" CREATED BY DEMONETISATION. NEEDLING THE BJP FURTHER, AN EDITORIAL IN ''SAAMANA'' HAILED THE DEVELOPMENT WORKS DONE BY CONGRESS GOVERNMENTS AT THE CENTRE AND TARGETED MODI, SAYING HE IS NOT READY TO ADMIT THE "CHAOS" CREATED BY DEMONETISATION. ABOUT MODI''S "RAINCOAT" BARB AGAINST HIS PREDECESSOR MANMOHAN SINGH, IT SAID BEING IN POWER WITH THE CORRUPT IS ALSO CORRUPTION. "BUT FOR THE WORK DONE BY THE CONGRESS GOVERNMENTS, MODI WOULD BE GOVERNING A BACKWARD NATION IN AFRICA," THE SENA PUBLICATION ASSERTED. CONGRESS GOVERNED TRANSFORMED THE NATION, WHICH COULD NOT EVEN PRODUCE A NEEDLE BEFORE INDEPENDENCE, TO ONE THAT IS AT THE FOREFRONT OF ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL GROWTH. THE PREVIOUS RULERS HAVE MADE INDIA WHAT IT IS TODAY," THE SENA ORGAN SAID. SENA ALSO PRAISED THE PREVIOUS PRIME MINISTERS WHO HEADED THE CONGRESS GOVERNMENTS AT THE CENTRE, INCLUDING INDIRA GANDHI AND RAJIV GANDHI INDIRA GANDHI TAUGHT PAKISTAN A LESSON IN THE 1971 WAR, NEVER DISPLAYED A "HYPOCRITICAL STAND" ON ANTI-NATIONALS, DID NOT TROUBLE THE POOR BY DEMONETISING CURRENCY NOTES AND WAS THUS NICKNAMED ''DURGA'' BY ATAL BIHARI VAJPAYEE, IT SAID. "HER STRONG WILL WAS THE NATION''S SHIELD. SHE NATIONALISED BANKS, MADE BETTER THE NATION''S ECONOMY, GUNNED DOWN KHALISTANI TERRORISTS AND GAVE THE MESSAGE THAT INDIA WILL NOT BEND BEFORE TERRORISTS. SHE SACRIFICED HER LIFE FOR THE NATION," THE EDITORIAL IN SAAMANA SAID EULOGISING RAJIV, IT SAID, "HE HAD THE WILL TO GOVERN BY CLEAN MEANS. HE MAY HAVE GOT THE TAINT OF BOFORS, BUT HE HAS TO BE CREDITED WITH BRINGING COMPUTERS TO INDIA. THE DEVELOPMENT OF TECHNOLOGY TODAY IS ONLY BECAUSE HE LAID A STRONG FOUNDATION." "NARASIMHA RAO AND MANMOHAN SINGH WERE SUCCESSFUL IN SAVING THE NATION FROM ECONOMIC IMBALANCE. HAD ALL THIS NOT HAPPENED IN THE LAST 60 YEARS, MODI WOULD TODAY BE GOVERNING A NATION LIKE SOMALIA OR BURUNDI," IT SAID.

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