MNS’ Shinde plays “I know Kothrud” card to trump BJP’s stronghold

The closest he has come to winning was in 2009, against Shiv Sena candidate Chandrakant Mokate, where Shinde lost the election by just 7,000 votes

Kishor Shinde is as “son of the soil” as it can get in Kothrud. Fighting the Assembly elections on the MNS ticket, Shinde has the backing of the Congress and NCP in this constituency. All with one single aim - defeat the BJP candidate Chandrakant Patil, also the BJP’s state president and Pune’s guardian minister.

MNS candidate KishoreShinde meets voters in Sutarwadi, Pashan, on Monday, October 14. (Sanket Wankhade/HT PHOTO)