People’s eyes are on Dalit-Muslim votes in Akot assembly seat, if the votes are divided then the path will be easy for BJP

11 candidates are in the fray for Akot assembly seat in the assembly elections. Voting will be held on this assembly seat along with the whole state on November 20, while the results will come on November 23. This seat comes under Akola district and Lok Sabha constituency. In 2019, Prakash Gunwantrao Bharsakale of BJP won the election from Akot seat.

11 candidates are in the fray for Akot assembly seat in the Maharashtra assembly elections. Voting will be held on this assembly seat along with the whole state on November 20, while the results will come on November 23. This seat comes under Akola district and Lok Sabha constituency. In 2019, Prakash Gunwantrao Bharsakale of BJP won the election from Akot seat. Here the main contest is seen between BJP and Congress. Prakash Bharsakale started his political journey as a Shiv Sena worker, in 1990 Prakash won the election as a Shiv Sena candidate from Dariyapur constituency. Bharsakale left Shiv Sena in 2005 and joined Congress.

In 2005, he won the by-election from Dariyapur seat as a Congress candidate. In 2009, Prakash left Congress and contested as an independent, but lost the election. In 2012, Prakash Bharsakale joined BJP. Prakash was elected as a BJP candidate from Akot in the 2014 and 2019 assembly elections. That is, he has led Dariyapur from 1990 to 2009 and Akot assembly constituency from 2014 till now. 72-year-old Prakash Bharsakale was born on 20 January 1964 in Kalyan Maharashtra. His wife’s name is Nalini Bharsakale and children’s names are Rupali and Vijay. His residence is Kalash Apartment Akot.

Akot assembly constituency is one of the five assembly constituencies located in Akola district. It is a part of Akola parliamentary constituency. This seat has been in existence since 1962. Congress initially dominated this Dalit-Muslim voter dominated seat, but since 1990, Congress has not been able to make a comeback here. In 1990, Shiv Sena snatched this seat from Congress for the first time. After this, Shiv Sena and BJP dominated here. Prakash Ambedkar’s Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi also plays an important role in victory and defeat here.

Understand the caste equation of Akol assembly seat

According to the 2019 data, there are a total of 2 lakh 85 thousand 150 voters on Akol assembly. Dalit and Muslim voters prove to be important for victory and defeat on this seat. If Dalit, Muslim and tribal voters are combined on this seat, then their number becomes about 50 percent. Here 16 percent Dalit and 26 percent Muslim voters. At the same time, the number of tribal voters is close to 7 percent.

What will be the election atmosphere of 2024?

There has been a triangular contest on this seat for the last few years. In such a situation, a triangular contest is expected this time too. BJP can contest this seat from Mahayuti because the current MLA from here is Prakash Bharsakale of BJP. At the same time, it remains to be seen in whose account this seat goes in Mahavikas Aghadi. If Congress fields its candidate from here, then to win, it will have to prevent the transfer of Dalit and Muslim votes to Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi. If the opposition alliance Mahavikas Aghadi prevents the division of Muslim and Dalit votes, then MVA can come back on the winning track from here. At the same time, BJP would want that MVA and Prakash Ambedkar’s party should be divided and the game should come in the hands of BJP.

Courtesy: Hindi News