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Twenty-two BJP candidates successful the conscionable concluded Amravati Municipal Corporation polls person written to Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, demanding expulsion of erstwhile MP Navneet Rana for allegedly campaigning against the party.
Out of the 22 complainants, 2 won, portion 20 mislaid the civic polls held connected January 15. They claimed that erstwhile Amravati Lok Sabha MP Navneet Rana aggressively dubbed the saffron enactment nominees arsenic "dummies" and promoted contestants of her hubby Ravi Rana's Yuva Swabhiman Party arsenic the "real BJP candidates".
Ahead of the civic polls, the BJP and MLA Ravi Rana's Yuva Swabhiman Party had breached their alliance. A section BJP person had, however, said that Navneet Rana volition proceed to run for the saffron enactment candidates.
In the 87-member Amravati Municipal Corporation, the BJP won 25 seats, Yuva Swabhiman Party and Congress got 15 each, AIMIM 12, NCP 11, Shiv Sena and BSP 3 each, Shiv Sena (UBT) 2 and Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi secured 1 seat.
In the erstwhile election, the BJP had won 45 seats, and the Yuva Swabhiman Party got 3 seats. Aggrieved by the decision of 20 BJP candidates, some the losers and the 2 winners connected Saturday (January 17, 2026) wrote a missive to CM Devendra Fadnavis, alleging their nonaccomplishment was caused not by the radical but by Navneet Rana.
"We are devoted and hardworking enactment workers, connected with society. But our decision successful this predetermination is not owed to the Opposition, but due to the fact that of elder BJP person Navneet Rana openly campaigning against the party," they said.
They person demanded that Navneet Rana beryllium expelled from the BJP and alleged that if she is not shown the door, she volition destruct the party's beingness successful Amravati metropolis successful the future. The erstwhile MP's absorption was not disposable connected the matter.
