Summary:
Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has named Milind Mhaiskar as the acting SRA chief in Kapoor’s absence. Eyebrows were raised in political circles after rebel Congress MLA Abdul Sattar met Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Water Resources Minister Girish Mahajan late Saturday. This raised several eyebrows since in 2014, Wankhede, then the sitting MP, was the Shiv Sena’s candidate against Congress’s Rajeev Satav, who won. On Sunday, the Congress named Wankhede, a former MP, as its contestant for the Hingoli seat. Earlier in the day, rebelling against the Congress, he had announced his intention of contesting the Aurangabad Lok Sabha poll against Shiv Sena’s sitting MP Chandrakant Khaire as an independent candidate..