Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray will begin joint poll meetings of select party workers from Friday. The first meeting will be held at Amravati at 12.30 pm and the second joint rally will be held at 3 pm at Nagpur.
After forging an alliance between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Shiv Sena last month, Fadnavis had called Uddhav at Matoshree, his official residence on Sunday to discuss poll strategy.
It was decided at that meeting to hold joint meetings of key party workers of both BJP-Sena to make it clear that they have to work together for candidates of the alliance. The joint meetings will be held in each region, including Nagpur, Amravati, Kolhapur, Pune, Nashik, Aurangabad and Konkan.
“On March 17 and 18, four more joint meetings will be held. 600 party workers from each party will be invited to attend the meeting. It is different from party rallies. The campaign rally will begin after nomination process will began,” said the BJP office bearer.
Both Sena and BJP have appointed leader giving responsibility of different Lok Sabha constituencies to keep coordination between party workers. Subhash Desai of Sena and Ravindra Chavan of BJP will take care of Sindhudurg-Ratnagiri, Maval and Raigad constituencies.
Eknath Shinde of Sena and Chavan of BJP will look after Kalyan, Thane, Palghar and Bhiwandi constituencies. Dr Neelam Gorhe of Sena and Girish Bapat of BJP will look after Pune, Baramati, Shirur, Solapur, Madha and Maval constituencies.
Nitin Bangude Patil of Sena and Chandrakant Patil of BJP will look after Satara, Sangli, Kolhapur and Hatkanangale constituencies. Dada Bhuse of Sena and Girish Mahajan have been given responsibility of Nashik, Dindori, Raver, Jalgaon, Dhule, Nandurbar, Nagar and Shirdi.
Wherereas Arjun Khotkar of Sena and Pankaja Munde of BJP and Dr Deepak Sawant of Sena and Chandrashekhar Bawankule will take care of Marathwada and Vidarbha region.
