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The next Constituency in our series of analysis of 2019 #LokSabha Elections of 48 seats in #Maharashtra is KOLHAPUR

Kolhapur (Consti No - 47)
Reservation - None
Total Electors - 18,80,496
Casted Votes - 13,32,504 (70.86%)

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Candidates
SHS - Sanjay Sadashivrao Mandlik
NCP - Dhananjay Mahadik

Result - SHS won this seat by 2,70,568 votes

Before the 2008 Delimitation Kolhapur Lok Sabha included 6 assembly segments - Sangrul, Kolhapur, Karvir, Kagal, Gadhinglaj and Chandgad.

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After 2008 Delimitation Kolhapur assembly segment was bifurcated into Kolhapur South and North. Gadhinglaj assembly was abolished and parts of it were added to Chandgad and Kagal. Sangrul was abolished and parts of it were added to Karvir and Radhanagari.

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Radhanagari assembly was a part of Ichalkaranji Lok sabha before 2008.

In 1952, Ratnappa Kumbhar of INC won the election. In 1957, Bhausaheb Mahagaonkar won the election as PWP(Shekapa) candidate. The next three elections were won by VT Patil, Shankarrao Mane and

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Rajaram Nimbalkar respectively as INC candidate. In 1977 there was a great ant-Congress wave and Dajiba Desai of PWP won the election by defeating Shankarrao Mane. The margin was just 165 votes.

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Udaysingrao Gaikwad won 1980, 1984, 1989, 1991 and 1996 elections comfortably on INC ticket. In 1998 Sadshivrao Mandlik won the election on INC ticket. In 1999, Mandlik again won but this time as a NCP candidate.

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In 2004, Sadashivrao Mandlik defeated Dhananjay Mahadik who was ShivSena candidate in a close fight. He left NCP just ahead of 2009 elections following a dispute with Sharad Pawar. In 2009, Dhananjay Mahadik wanted ticket from NCP

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but NCP gave the ticket to Sambhajiraje Chhatrapati and hence Mahadik supported Mandlik. As a result, Sadashivrao Mandlik won as an independent candidate. Ahead of the 2014 elections, Sanjay Mandlik joined Shiv Sena and left INC. He was declared as Mahayuti candidate.

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NCP declared Dhananjay(Munna) Mahadik as its candidate. Interestingly, during 2004 Sharad Pawar had said “ Who is Munna ?” when Mahadik was Sena candidate.

Talking of the candidates, Dhananjay Mahadik commonly known as Munna Mahadik is the nephew of Mahadevrao Mahadik

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who served as MLC from 1997-2015 as an INC candidate. Mahadik are a strong family which enjoyed power in almost every major co-operative institution in the Kolhapur District. They also had great power in Kolhapur Municipal Corporation.

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They have enjoyed power in District Bank, Kolhapur Zilla Sahakari Dudh Utpadak Sangh Ltd, well known with its name 'Gokul' and Chh. Rajaram Co-operative sugar factory for a long time. Dhananjay also served as the Chairman of Bhima Co-operative Sugar Factory, Mohol.

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He contested the 2004 Lok Sabha election. He contested 2009 Vidhan elections from Kolhapur South against Satej(Bunty) Patil as an independent candidate but he was defeated. Sanjay Mandlik is the son of veteran leader Sadashivrao Mandlik.

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Sanjay Mandlik is a chairman of Sadashivrao Mandlik Kagal Taluka Sahakari Sakhar Karkhana Ltd. He had served as Kolhapur ZP Chairman from 2012-14. In 2015, he was elected as the director of KDCC Bank. He was re-elected as the director in 2022.

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Kolhapur Lok Sabha consists of 6 Vidhan Sabha Segments -
1) Chandgad,
2) Radhanagari,
3) Kagal,
4) Kolhapur South,
5) Karvir and
6) Kolhapur North.
All the assembly segments belong to Kolhapur District.

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Details of Votes Received by Candidates in each assembly segments:

1) Chandgad (2,10,189)
SHS - 120,857 (57.50%)
NCP - 70,726 (33.65%)

2) Radhanagari (2,30,922)
SHS - 126,160 (54.63%)
NCP - 86,945 (37.65%)

3) Kagal (2,41,881)
SHS - 148,727 (61.49%)
NCP - 77,300 (31.96%)

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4) Kolhapur South (2,27,368)
SHS- 127,175 (55.93%)
NCP- 83,558 (36.75%)

5) Karvir (2,27,805)
SHS- 120,864 (53.06%)
NCP- 84,054 (36.90%)

6) Kolhapur North (1,87,243)
SHS- 101,892 (54.42%)
NCP - 74,237 (39.65%)

Postal Votes (5,444)
SHS - 3410 (62.64%)
NCP - 1697 (31.17%)

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Total Votes (1332504)
SHS - 749085 (56.22%)
NCP - 478517 (35.91%)
VBA - 63439 (4.76%)

Result - SHS won this seat by 2,70,568 votes

This constituency has SC population of 12.26% and a ST population of 0.51%. 32.13% of the population is urban and nearly 68% rural.

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Of the six Assembly segments in this constituency, three were held by the Sena in Kolhapur North, Karvir and Radhanagari, two by the NCP in Kagal and Chandgad, one by BJP in Kolhapur South.

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This Lok Sabha seat saw a high-voltage campaign. Congress MLA Satej Patil openly showed his support to Shiv Sena candidate Sanjay Mandlik. Not only this, the entire system was set up in favor of Mandlik in a secret manner.

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While the fight was Sanjay Mandlik vs Dhananjay Mahadik, actually the discussion was about Bunty and Munna. In that, two slogans “'Aamcha Tharlay” and “Me Bi Dhyanaat Thevlay” became popular in the campaign.

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The whole district is aware of the political rivalry of Munna and Bunty. However they worked together in 2014 Lok Sabha elections and as a result Mahadik won the election in the Modi wave. In the 2014 assembly election, Amal Mahadik who is the cousin of Dhananjay

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filed his nomination against Bunty Patil from Kolhapur South as a BJP candidate. Bunty Patil was defeated from Kolhapur South. This enraged Bunty and he took a vow to defeat Mahadik. Bunty made a comeback by defeating Mahadevrao Mahadik in MLC elections 2015.

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In the 2014 elections, Mahadik had a lead from Kolhapur South and Karvir due to Bunty’s support. In this election, Mahadik trailed from all the 6 assembly segments. He trailed by more than 40000 votes in Kolhapur South and a similar lead in Karvir.

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Mandlik got a lead from Kagal as he belongs to Kagal. In 2014, Mahadik had got a lead from Radhanagari but this time he trailed by almost 40000 votes. A lead from North was expected for Mandlik.

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In the 2019 Assembly elections INC won 3 segments - Kolhapur South, North and Karvir whereas NCP won two segments - Chandgad and Kagal. Shiv Sena won Radhanagari. The Shiv Sena MLA is with Eknath Shinde. Hasan Mushrif who is Kagal MLA and Chandgad MLA is with Ajit Pawar.

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This seat will cause problems in seat sharing in both the alliances. Every party wants to fight this seat. SSUBT will want to fight this seat as they won this seat in 2019. Sanjay Pawar is interested from SSUBT.

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INC will be wanting this seat as they have good power in this Lok Sabha. There was news that Kadsiddheshwar Maharaj might fight on BJP ticket. Sanjay Mandlik who is with Shinde will want to fight as he is the sitting MP.

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Both the NCP factions will also be interested to fight this seat. There was news that Chh. Shahu might fight on NCP ticket. In short, all parties and factions are interested in fighting this seat.

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According to you, Which party will fight from NDA and MVA and who will be the candidates ? Comment down your opinions.

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