"Linked To Dawood Ibrahim": BJP Opposes Nawab Malik's Candidature
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"We will not accept giving a ticket to someone linked to underworld don Dawood Ibrahim," Shelar, Mumbai BJP president, told a news channel. "We won't support Malik and will have a different stand," BJP leader Ashish Shelaradded.
BJP leader Ashish Shelar on Tuesday said his party is against the candidature of NCP leader Nawab Malik for the November 20 Maharashtra assembly election.
"We will not accept giving a ticket to someone linked to underworld don Dawood Ibrahim," Shelar, Mumbai BJP president, told a news channel. "We won't support Nawab Malik and will have a different stand," he added.
He was responding to media reports that Nawab Malik, sitting MLA from Anushakti Nagar in Mumbai South-Central parliamentary constituency, may contest from Mankhurd-Shivaji Nagar and leave the Anushakti Nagar constituency to his daughter Sana, who plans to make her debut in electoral politics.
