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Kalyan Lok Sabha : The situation is not favorable for Dr.Shrikant Shinde.

There is not even a month’s time left for the Lok Sabha elections Voting for Kalyan lok sabha seat. Meanwhile, Shiv Sena leader Vaishali Darekar, who is contesting the elections on Shiv Sena Udav Thakare group ticket, has joined the campaign trail.

At the same time, the campaign of Dr. Shrikant Shinde, the candidate of Chief Minister Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena, seems to have come to a halt due to lack of mutual coordination.

It is known that the name of Vaishali Darekar, the candidate of Shiv Sena Uddhav Thackeray group, was announced earlier and his campaign is going on in full swing. Along with this, he also has the old experience of getting more than one lakh votes by contesting the Lok Sabha elections.

He is getting lot of support from the hardcore Shiv Sainiks of the area. And also she is getting the open support of all Shiv Sainiks who sympathise with the Thackeray family and who believe that Eknath Shinde has done wrong by breaking the Shiv Sena.

Darekar, a woman candidate, is getting some similar support from voters sympathetic to NCP supremo Sharad Pawar and the Congressmen here are openly campaigning for Vaishali Darekar.

But the situation is no longer the same with Dr Shinde, the candidate of the Shiv Sena Shinde Group. Party sources say that the party campaign is in the hands of some newly-learned leaders, who are not ready for any suggestion or new program. Everything is going on in Ram Bharosa, in such a situation there can be a question mark on victory.

According to party sources, the biggest problem in the Kalyan Lok Sabha election is with the BJP leaders here. Who is seen with Dr. Shinde only for show. It is clear from the mood of many BJP leaders that they are not going to make much effort to win Dr. Shinde in this Lok Sabha.

With the BJP miffed over Kalyan East MLA Ganpat Gaikwad, his wife campaigning for the anti-incumbency candidate Vaishali Darekar could spell trouble for Dr Shinde’s victory.

By tying up with Pappu Kalani, a staunch opponent of Ulhasnagar BJP MLA Kumar Ailani, the Shinde group of the Shiv Sena has already sealed the decks for support from the BJP.

In such a situation, it is clearly visible that the situation in Kalyan Lok Sabha constituency is not favorable for Dr. Shrikant Shinde.