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Dindoshi Assembly Constituency: Sitting Shiv Sena MLA Suresh Prabhu to face NCP's Vidya Chavan

Of the 288 assembly seats, Dindoshi is the 159th constituency in Maharashtra which is a part of Mumbai suburban district and comes under the city's North-East Parliamentary constituency

Dindoshi Assembly Constituency: Sitting Shiv Sena MLA Suresh Prabhu to face NCP's Vidya Chavan
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The assembly elections in Maharashtra are scheduled on October 21 and people will vote to elect their representatives in 288 constituencies across the state. 

Of the 288 assembly seats, Dindoshi is the 159th constituency in Maharashtra which is a part of Mumbai suburban district and comes under the city's North-East Parliamentary constituency. 

Under the Mumbai North-West Lok Sabha constituency, the assembly constituencies include Jogeshwari East, Dindoshi, Goregaon, Versova, Andheri East and Andheri West.

Of the 2,97,492 voters in Dindoshi assembly constituency, 1,75,247 voters are males while 1,22,245 voters are female. 


Contenders

In Dindoshi assembly constituency, the major battle is between Shiv Sena and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). While Shiv Sena has fielded Suresh Prabhu, NCP has given the ticket to Vidya Chavan who is a top leader in the party. 

On this seat, a total of 10 candidates are contesting the assembly polls including Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) Dilip Tawde, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena's (MNS) Arun Surve, Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) candidate Amit Swami among others. 


Result in previous polls

In 2009 assembly elections, Rajhans Singh from Congress won on Dindoshi seat while in 2014 Shiv Sena's Sunil Prabhu was elected as an MLA. Currently, Prabhu's chances of winning from this seat have increased as the Shiv Sena and BJP are contesting the assembly polls together. 

In 2014, Shiv Sena’s Suresh Prabhu registred 56,577 votes while Congress’ Rajhans Singh managed to get only 36,749 votes followed by BJP’s Mohit Kamboj got 36,169 votes, MNS’ Shamini Thackeray got 14,662 votes and NCP’s Ajit Ravrane only received 8,550 votes. 

The Dindoshi assembly constituency has several issues including traffic and illegal construction work. Along with this, the problem of illegal slums and shops in the area also a major concern. 



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