‘100 percent confident about the victory of Adhvarao Patil from Shirur constituency’

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Senior NCP leader and former Maharashtra Home Minister Dilip Walse Patil on Saturday said that his party colleague Shivajirao Adhalrao Patil will register a comprehensive victory from Shirur Lok Sabha seat in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections 2024, news agency ANI reported.

Patil, who is undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Pune after an accident at his home, said he will soon start campaigning for the Lok Sabha elections 2024.

“My legs got injured and fractured after I slipped at my house. I have been recovering for the last 15 days, my treatment is still going on, but as soon as I get better I will go to meet people in my constituency “Will campaign and seek votes for Shivajirao Patil. I am 100 percent confident that he will win the seat. Some people who met me in the hospital have convinced me to work for the NCP candidate.”

Patil suffered the injury in an accident at his home in Pune in March this year and later underwent surgery on his leg, ANI reported.

Patil, once considered a Sharad Pawar loyalist before the split in the NCP, served as Maharashtra Home Minister in 2021 after Anil Deshmukh resigned from the post due to corruption allegations.

Shivajirao Adhalrao Patil will contest from Shirur Lok Sabha seat against NCP (Sharad Chandra Pawar) candidate and sitting MP Amol Kolhe.

In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Kolhe defeated Shivajirao Adhalrao Patil by a margin of 58,483 votes. Patil had contested the elections on Shiv Sena ticket.

Shivajirao Adhalrao Patil is a three-time (2004-2019) Lok Sabha MP from Shirur constituency.

Voting in Maharashtra is being held in five phases – from April 19 to May 20. Counting of votes is to take place on June 4.

Voting took place in 88 Lok Sabha constituencies on Friday for the second phase, which included all 20 seats in Kerala, 14 in Karnataka, 13 in Rajasthan, eight each in Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, five each in Assam and Bihar, six in Madhya Pradesh, Consists of three seats. One each in Chhattisgarh and West Bengal, and one each in Tripura, Manipur and Jammu and Kashmir.

The first phase of voting for the seven-phase Lok Sabha elections was held on April 19 in 102 constituencies across 21 states and union territories, with over 62 per cent voter turnout.

(With inputs from ANI)