Nanded: The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has emerged strongly in Nanded district in the past year and made grand preparations for the Loha and Kandhar municipal council elections. However, it has not fielded any candidate in the Mukhed Municipal Council election, either for council president or council members. Although two former MLAs are active in the NCP, the nephew of one of them has filed a nomination from the BJP, surprising the political arena.

Congress’s former MLA Avinash Ghate, Shiv Sena’s Subhash Sabne, Congress’s former ZP president Vaishali Chavan, her husband Swapnil, her father-in-law Seshrao Chavan, and former ZP president Venkatrao Gojegaonkar are now in the NCP with their supporters. NCP president and Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar had recently visited Mukhed and

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