Summary:
Once bitten twice shy, the BJP had ditched Shiv Sena at the last moment while the NCP refused to form an alliance with Congress in the 2014 state Assembly polls. As a result in this polls, all parties had asked their local leaders to fill the additional nominations to all 288 assembly constituencies. The prominent political parties BJP, Shiv Sena, Congress and the NCP has asked their cadre to submit the additional nominations apart from the official party nominations for the state Assembly polls. NCP declared the nomination of Deepak Atram while Congress declared the candidature of Baba Atram. "Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray called Nahta and asked him to not join the BJP..