Nagpur: Mayawati-led Bahujan Samaj Party on Wednesday said it is confident of winning at least 15 of the 48 Lok Sabha seats in Maharashtra.
“We are fielding candidates on all the (48) seats and hope to put up a good show by winning 15 of them,” MP and in-charge of BSP affairs in Maharashtra, Vir Singh, said at a press conference in Nagpur.
Meanwhile, the party, which is aiming to replicate its Uttar Pradesh based successful social engineering formula of Dalit-Brahmin combine in other states, on Wednesday announced six more candidates in Maharashtra.
The candidates are Diwakar Nakorde (Osmanabad), M Maqbool (Nanded), Raj Pal Singh (Jalna), Dilip Edatkar (Wardha), Amol Potke (Chandrapur) and Raje Satyawanrao (Gadchiroli-Chimur).
The party is yet to open its account of Lok Sabha seat in the state.
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