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Hatkanangle Lok Sabha constituency: Candidates for 2019 LS poll, past results, all updates

Can Raju Shetti score a hattrick?

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Hatkanangle Lok Sabha constituency is witnessing a fight between Swabhimani Paksha's Raju Shetti and Shiv Sena's Dhairyasheel Mane. Farmer leader Shetti won the last election from Hatkanangle with BJP-SS support. However, alleging that they are not doing enough for farmers, Shetti got out of the NDA fold and is part of UPA now. He is the joint candidate of Congress- NCP led alliance where Paksha is also a part.

VBA's Aslam Sayyad is also in the fray. Campaigning for Mane, Uddhav  Thackeray has lamented the fact that they supported Shetti in 2014 and dubbed it as a mistake.  Caste is also a factor here as Mane, a Maratha is up against Shetti who is a Jain. In the run-up to the elections, Shetti tripped up when he made a casteist remark and later had to apologise.

In 2014, Shetti won by nearly 1.8 lakh votes. In 2009, he won by around 95 thousand votes without the support of any big party. Hatkanangle Lok Sabha seat existed from 1962 and 1976 and again came back after delimitation in 2009. In the meanwhile the seat was rechristened as Ichalkaranji, which Congress won seven times and then NCP twice. For Congress, Rajaram Mane won five times.

The assembly segments under Hatkanangle are Shahuwadi, Hatkanangale, Ichalkaranji, Shirol, Islampur and Shirala. It goes to polls on April 23.

The 48 seats of Maharashtra are going to polls in four phases. The main parties are BJP, Shiv Sena, Congress and NCP. After contesting separately in last assembly elections, BJP and Sena are contesting together and so in Congress and NCP. Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA) of Prakash Ambedkar has also put up candidates in all seats. Raj Thackeray's MNS is not contesting this election, though he has openly canvassed for Congress- NCP alliance.

A total of 14 Lok Sabha seats will go to polls on April 23 during the third phase.

They include Jalgaon, Raver, Jalna, Aurangabad, Raigad, Pune, Baramati, Ahmednagar, Madha, Sangli, Satara, Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg, Kolhapur and Hatkanangle.

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