Pune: Amidst Election Preparations, Bhagare Guruji Recommends Brahmin Candidacy for Kasba Constituency

Pune:

The election season has started in Maharashtra. After the Election Commission of India announced the election for the Maharashtra Assembly on November 20, almost all the major parties in the state have begun their preparation. Amidst this, the much-discussed Kasba assembly constituency has once again come to the centre of everyone’s attention after Pandit Atul Bhagare Guruji made a statement about it.

In one of the events in Pune, Bhagare Guruji advised the ruling BJP party to give chance to Brahmin candidate from Kasba constituency to avoid the repetition of Kasba assembly by-election.

There is a large predominance of the Brahmin community in the Kasba assembly constituency of Pune. By-elections were held in Kasba constituency last year due to the untimely demise of MLA Mukta Tilak. At that time, Ravindra Dhangekar of the Congress party defeated Hemant Rasane of the BJP. After that, various reactions come from the Brahmin community of this assembly, which was displeased with the nomination of a non-Brahmin candidate by the BJP.

Many people living in the Peth area had made a direct statement about it while talking to the media. After Dhangekar was elected from Kasba, the constituency, which was the stronghold of the BJP for more than 25 years, came to Congress.

But now the demand that the candidate for Kasba assembly constituency should be from the Brahmin community is getting stronger. The president of the Brahmin Mahasangh, Bhalchandra Kulkarni, has also demanded a candidate from the Brahmin community. The community has also demanded that Brahmin candidates should be given in at least 30 Brahmin-dominated constituencies in the state, including Kasba.

It is learnt that the BJP city chief Dheeraj Ghate, Hemant Rasane, and Kunal Tilak are interested candidates from the BJP in Kasba. But still, no decision has been taken about whom the party will nominate. In the previous by-election, Dhangekar won from the Kasba constituency, defeating Hemant Rasane of the BJP. But in the recently concluded Lok Sabha election, Dhangekar got the lowest vote from this assembly. Therefore, it is going to be challenging for Dhangekar to keep this fortress with the Congress.