Encounter specialist's wife rebelled against Shiv Sena
Encounter specialist pradeep Sharma's wife Swikriti Sharma has rebelled against Shiv Sena. She is angry at not being given a ticket. Swikriti Sharma will file nomination from Andheri East. She will file nomination as an independent candidate. Tomorrow (29 October) is the last date for filing nomination in Maharashtra.
Swikriti Sharma joined shiv sena in July. Along with Swikriti, her daughters Ankita and Nikita also joined Shiv Sena. Swikriti is the vice president of NGO PS Foundation. Ever since she joined shiv sena, it was being said that she would contest the assembly elections. Under the seat sharing in Mahayuti, Andheri east was given to shiv sena but Eknath Shinde gave the ticket to Murji Kanji Patel.
pradeep sharma took a big decision on his wife's candidature
On the other hand, when Sweekriti's name was not announced, pradeep sharma called a meeting of his workers and it was decided that Sweekriti will contest the election as an independent. Let us tell you that when Sweekriti joined shiv sena in July, she was called to Eknath Shinde's residence and made to join the party and she reached there with a convoy of 50 vehicles. Since then her claim was considered certain. However, it is not clear yet why Sweekriti Sharma was not given the ticket.
Fight in Andheri east is shiv sena vs Shiv Sena-UBT
On the other hand, in Andheri east, Murji Kanji patel will data-face uddhav faction leader Rutuja Latke, who is the outgoing mla from here. She won this seat in the 2022 by-election. She is the wife of Ramesh Latke. Ramesh Latke won the 2014 and 2019 elections from Andheri east but the seat fell vacant after his death. uddhav thackeray had fielded Rutuja in the by-election.