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As the highly charged battle for Maharashtra assembly elections will be settled on November 23, Saturday, seat Nagpur South West will remain one of the essential battlegroud to look forward to as Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis is contesting against Congress' Prafulla Gudadhe. The Nagpur South-West assembly seat in Maharashtra is considered a stronghold of the BJP, but this time its MLA and Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis is expected to get a good fight from his Congress opponent, according to political observers. While Fadnavis has a strong chance of winning the seat in the November 20 state polls, it could be a close contest between him and his Congress rival Prafulla Gudhade Patil, whom the BJP leader trounced in 2014, they said.
Poll and result date: The voting was conducted on November 20 and results will be announced on November 23. What happened in past elections? 2019 elections : Fadnavis secured 109,237 votes, easily defeating Indian National Congress (INC) candidate Dr. Ashish Deshmukh, who garnered 59,893 votes.
Fadnavis’s victory margin was a significant 49,344 votes, underscoring his strong political base in the region. 2014 elections: Fadnavis once again claimed victory with 113,918 votes, surpassing INC's Prafulla Vinod Gudadhe (Patil), who secured 54,976 votes. The margin of victory was a large 58,942 votes, solidifying BJP’s influence in Nagpur South West.
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Prafulla Gudhade Patil's father Vinod Gudhade Patil was the first BJP MLA from Nagpur district in 1990. The senior Patil was a two-term MLA from Nagpur-West before he left the BJP and joined Congress. He fought as Congress candidate in the 1999 assembly polls and lost to Fadnavis, who was then contesting his first state election.
What are key issues of Napur South-West constituency? The flooding in some areas of the constituency after heavy rains last year and inflation are among the most discussed topics among the electorate in the high-profile seat, comprising 4,08,149 voters. The BJP is hoping to blunt the opposition's campaign by highlighting Ladki Bahin Yojana, a financial aid scheme for the poor women, and other welfare measures for different sections of the society, political analysts said. Some prominent establishments like the Multi Modal international Cargo Hub and Airport at Nagpur (MIHAN), AIIMS, IIM Nagpur are located in the constituency and Fadnavis, who is seeking a sixth term, is expected is to score over his opponent on the development plank, they said.
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