On Tuesday Mumbai BJP leader Ashish Shelar said that his party is against the candidature of NCP leader Nawab Malik for the November 20 Maharashtra assembly election.
Shelar, Mumbai BJP president, while talking to the media said “We will not accept giving a ticket to someone linked to underworld don Dawood Ibrahim,”. “We won’t support Malik and will have a different stand,” he added.
Shelar’s response was to the media reports suggesting that Malik, the sitting MLA from Anushakti Nagar in Mumbai South-Central parliamentary constituency, may contest from Mankhurd-Shivaji Nagar. Reports also suggested that he might leave the Anushakti Nagar constituency to his daughter Sana, who plans to make her debut in electoral politics.
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Sana Malik, a 36-year-old architect-turned-lawyer, is set to contest the Anushakti Nagar assembly constituency as the Ajit Pawar-led NCP’s nominee. The NCP confirmed her candidature, announcing that she will file her nomination papers on October 28.
Nawab Malik is expected to contest from Mankhurd-Shivaji Nagar as an NCP candidate. According to reports Malik was a minister in the Maha Vikas Aghadi government.
He was arrested in 2022 in a case first registered by the NIA against Dawood and his associates including Chhota Shakeel and Tigar Memon. Malik was granted bail on medical grounds in July this year.
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