The BJP on April 27 dropped incumbent Lok Sabha MP Poonam Mahajan as its candidate from the Mumbai North Central seat and named lawyer Ujjwal Deorao Nikam in her place.
Mr. Nikam is a well known title within the authorized circle and was a authorities counsel within the Mumbai terror assault case.
Ms. Mahajan, the daughter of late BJP chief Pramod Mahajan, was elected from the constituency in 2014 and 2019.
She can be a former president of the BJP’s youth wing.
Get together leaders have claimed that the choice to drop her was primarily based on organisational suggestions.
Although indications had been there for a while that Mahajan could be dropped, it was the get together’s seek for her substitute that took time, sources stated.
The Congress has fielded its metropolis unit chief and Dharavi MLA Varsha Gaikwad from Mumbai North Central.
Voting in Mumbai is scheduled to be held on Might 20 within the fifth part of the polls.
The BJP additionally named eight extra candidates for the Odisha meeting polls, which will probably be held alongside the overall elections.