Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday, April 8, will address a public rally in Maharashtra’s Chandrapur district, kick-staring the Lok Sabha election campaigning in the state for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Modi will hold at least 10 rallies in the state, starting with Chandrapur on April 8.
Modi will be campaigning for BJP’s candidate from Chandrapur, Sudhir Mungantiwar, who is also the sitting forest, cultural affairs and fisheries minister of Maharashtra under Eknath Shinde’s cabinet. Meanwhile, the Congress party has fielded Pratibha Dhanorkar from the seat. She is the widow of Balu Dhanorkar, who passed away last year at 47.
Earlier on Sunday, PM Modi conducted a successful road show in Jabalpur. he posted pictures of the road show and mentioned success of the same on his social media account.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP won 23 out of 25 seats it contested in alliance with undivided Shiv Sena. In the same elections, Congress candidate Balu Dhanorkar won from the Chandrapur seat. Dhanorkar, however, passed away at a private hospital in Delhi in May 2023 at the age of 47.
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