Mumbai: Senior BJP leader and BCCI Treasurer Advocate Ashish Shelar has won the prestigious Vandre West Assembly Constituency in Mumbai as counting of votes for the Maharashtra Assembly elections 2024 concluded.
As per the latest real-time ECI data, Shelar secured 82780 votes against INC's Asif Ahmed Zakaria who secured 62849 giving a winning lead of 19,931 to the BJP candidate. Bahujan Samaj Party candidate Aijaz Iqbal Qureshi emerged as the second runner-up by securing 472 votes while Istiyaque Bashir Jagirdar of the Aazad Samaj Party (Kanshi Ram) remained the 3rd runner-up with 364 votes as per the ECI data.
Shelar, who is also the Mumbai BJP chief, has scored a hattrick after he was elected in the 2014 and 2019 Maharashtra Assembly polls.
A well-connected man, who dons many hats, Shelar, is considered by many a potential Chief Minister candidate in the next Mahayuti government. Marathi actors including Vaibhav Tatwawadi, singers Suresh Wadkar, Anuradha Paudwal and others campaigned for Shelar on the last day of the campaign as the BJP leader is associated with arts and culture in addition to cricket.
Shelar, the son-in-law of late Shiv Sena leader Sitaram Dalvi, has been a Maharashtra Sports Minister in the past and has good contacts in the Bollywood too. He had worked for the welfare of the actors and particularly Marathi actors.
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