In the midst of parties that accuse their rivals of promoting dynastic policies, on November 20 Maharashtra assembly polls We will see brothers, cousins ​​and parents and children facing each other, with members of the same family facing each other in some seats.

In one constituency, the battle is between a husband and wife, while in another seat an uncle and nephew face each other.

In the high-stakes battle of Pawars, debutant Yugendra Pawar, candidate of the Sharad Pawar-led NCP (SP), will take on his uncle and deputy chief minister. Ajit Pawarrepresenting the PCN, in the Baramati seat.

Ajit Pawar won the Baramati assembly elections seven times and also once won the Baramati parliamentary seat.

This is the second time baramatithe stronghold of Pawars, will witness a competition within the family. In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Deputy CM’s wife Sunetra Pawar was defeated by her cousin and NCP (SP) leader Supriya Sule in the Baramati parliamentary seat.

In neighboring Karjat-Jamkhed, Rohit Pawar, another nephew of Ajit Pawar, is in the fray as an NCP (SP) candidate against BJP’s Ram Shinde. Rohit Pawar is the grandnephew of Sharad Pawar.

In Kannad constituency in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, independent candidate Harshwardhan Jadhav is pitted against his ex-wife and Shiv Sena candidate Sanjana Jadhav, daughter of BJP leader and former Union minister Raosaheb Danve.

Sanjana Jadhav’s brother Santosh Danve is contesting from Bhokardan in Jalna as a BJP candidate.

Congress candidates Amit Deshmukh and Dhiraj Deshmukh, sons of former state chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, are in the election fray from Latur City and are contesting the Latur Rural seats respectively.

Similarly, Nitesh Rane and Nilesh Rane, sons of BJP MP and former Maharashtra chief minister Narayan Rane, are in the fray from Kudal and Kankavli constituencies as Shiv Sena and BJP candidates respectively.

In Mumbai, the Thackeray cousins ​​are in the fight from different seats.

While sitting Shiv Sena (UBT) sitting MLA Aaditya Thackeray is contesting again from Worli, his maternal cousin Varun Sardesai is contesting from Vandre (Bandra) East assembly seat on the party ticket.

Aaditya’s cousin Amit Thackeray, son of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray, is contesting from Mahim’s neighboring seat in Mumbai.

Former Maharashtra minister Ganesh Naik is contesting from the Airoli seat as a BJP candidate, while his son Sandeep is in the fray from the neighboring Belapur constituency as an NCP (SP) candidate.

Similarly, Maharashtra minister Vijaykumar Gavit and his daughter and former MP Heena Gavit are also in the election race.

While Gavit is contesting as a BJP candidate from the Nandurbar seat, his daughter is in the fray from the neighboring Akkalkuwa constituency as an independent.

In Islampur, NCP (SP) state chief Jayant Patil is in the fray, while his nephew and former Maharashtra minister Prajakt Tanpure is contesting for Rahuri on the party ticket.

NCP minister Chhagan Bhujbal is contesting from Yevala, while his nephew and former MP Sameer Bhujbal is in the fray from Nandgaon seat as an independent.

BJP Mumbai president Ashish Shelar is in the fray for Mumbai’s Vandre (Bandra) West, a constituency known for being home to several Bollywood personalities, while his brother and party candidate Vinod Shelar is contesting Bad West.

BJP’s Santukrao Hambarde is contesting the Nanded Lok Sabha by-election, while his brother and sitting MLA Mohanrao Hambarde is contesting the assembly polls from Nanded South assembly seat as a Congress candidate. .

The Nanded Lok Sabha by-election, necessitated by the death of sitting Congress MP Vasantrao Chavan, is scheduled for November 20.