Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena has declared candidates for 21 seats in Maharashtra, which will vote in five phases starting April 19. Shiv Sena (UBT) named two-time municipal corporator Vaishali Darekar-Rane as the party’s candidate from the Kalyan parliamentary constituency, challenging current MP and CM Eknath Shind’s son Shrikant Shinde.
Darekar-Rane previously fought the Lok Sabha election in 2009 when she was fielded as a Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) candidate and finished third, securing 1,02,063 votes. Anand Paranjpe, who was then with the Shiv Sena, won the election. This time Maharashtra CM Shinde’s son Shrikant Shinde is contesting against her and people speculate it is challenging for Darekar.
When asked about her chances of winning this seat, she told Afternoon Voice, “Shrikant Shinde has not done any major development for the people of Kalyan; he has not even built any good government schools or hospitals to improve the quality of life of people in Kalyan.”
She added further that even though Eknath Shinde’s son Shrikant Shinde was nobody, Uddhav Thackrey-led Shiv Sena has given him the seat and a sense of identity, while she added that the people of Thane who have supported Shiv Sena before will do it now.”
