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Polls in Maharashtra: Mixed results for netas and betas as families try to keep their legacy alive | India News – Times of India

Polls in Maharashtra: Mixed results for netas and betas as families try to keep their legacy alive
MUMBAI: Though NCPs Nawab Malika veteran of many elections, lost to the Mankhurd-Shivaji Nagar constituency against sitting SP MLA Abu Asim Azmi, he got a face-saver in the victory of daughter Sana from Anushakti Nagar, a seat he represented in 2019 and 2009. Sana won by a margin of 3,378 votes against NCP (SP) nominee Fahad Ahmad, husband of actor Swara Bhaskar. Bhaskar and Ahmad blamed the EVM for his loss. Sana’s margin of victory was small also because the MNS candidate, Acharya Vidyadhar, got 28,362 votes.
Mixed emotions also defined the mood in the Naik household of former minister and six-time MLA Ganesh Naik of BJP who secured Airoli’s victory, while his son Sandeep, who was BJP’s Navi Mumbai chief but defected to NCP (SP) after being denied a party ticket, and lost Belapur chair to BJP’s sitting MLA Manda Mhatre by 377 votes.

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