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

BJP looks to get the house in order.

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It wouldn't be wrong to say BJP's woes in Jalgaon Lok Sabha constituency, where it has ruled the roost for last two decades is mostly self-inflicted. The video of BJP factions fighting in an election rally in Jalgaon has already become one of the most shared images of this election. It was a great face loss to party already grappling with the hard choice of changing candidate at the eleventh hour.

BJP dropped AT Nana Patil who had won by 96 thousand votes in 2014 after a lewd video purportedly belonging to him went viral. The ticket was given to Smita Wagh, wife of Jalgaon BJP district chief. But with surveys indicating Smita not clicking with the masses, BJP had to resort to course correction and roped in MLA Unmesh Patil. Unmesh Patil was not exactly keen was pushed by the party. Then, came the viral video.

Uday Wagh and his supporters suspected the BJP's former legislator BS Patil had reportedly campaigned against Smita Wagh to cut her ticket which lead to public scuffle. When minister Girish Mahajan tried to intervene, he too faced the brunt. Despite all these fiasco, BJP just by dint of its rock solid base is in fight against NCP's Gulabrao Deokar. Ex-Minister Deokar has been arrested before in connection with housing scam, but NCP  believes he is the best person to break BJP's domination there. Barring 1996, BJP has won all elections since 1991. In the past, Congress has won the seat five times. The assembly segments under Jalgaon are Jalgaon City,Jalgaon Rural,Amalner,Erandol,Chalisgaon and Pachora. 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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