Hemant Patil of Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena is the incumbent MP here, but the party and its Mahayuti alliance have given the ticket this time to Baburao Kadam Kohalikar. The other top contenders are Nagesh Ashtikar of Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) for the Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance and Dr BD Chavan of Prakash Ambedkar's Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi
A political party functionary working for a Lok Sabha poll candidate said, "With the new provision of the ECI to allow registration of voters beyond January 25, the potential candidates and their teams took extra efforts to complete the registration process of the potential voters, who are otherwise averse to visit the government office and get their names registered."
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Former chief minister Ashok Chavan's exit has left the Congress party without any prominent face in the Marathwada region. Will he be offered a BJP nomination for the Rajya Sabha elections or be asked to contest the Lok Sabha elections from his hometown Nanded?