Fight for Nagpur constituency: Nitin Gadkari vs Nana Patole - The Beats

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Wednesday, April 3, 2019

Fight for Nagpur constituency: Nitin Gadkari vs Nana Patole



Rahul Gandhi ’s campaign rally for the first phase of Lok Sabha elections will be for party candidate Nana Patole. On Thursday, he will address a rally in Nagpur and two rallies in Chandrapur and Wardha the next day. 

Congress candidate Nana Patole is going face Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and union transport minister Nitin Gadkari in Nagpur constituency. Nana patole, former BJP MP who has now turned Congress candidate says, Nagpur’s voters will ensure that he wins. Currently, Nagpur constituency is under the BJP leader Nitin Gadkari.

In 2014, Gadkari won with an impressive margin of 2.85 lakh votes and he insists on improving on it this time even as the Congress and some others think Patole is making the fight tight. 

In a constituency with over 21 lakh voters, the traditional anti-BJP segments are the Kumbis (the 4 lakh influential Maratha OBCs to which Patole belongs) and the Muslim-Dalit-Halba segment which comprises 11 lakh people. While Patole has been trying to rally these segments, Gadkari has been using his “non-polarising persona” to woo them besides cementing his reach across other pro-BJP segments comprising other OBCs, Brahmins, Telis etc. Given the high-stake battle, both Gadkari and Patole are staying put in this constituency which goes to the polls on April 11. 

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