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Nagpur: Congress’s Nagpur-West MLA Vikas Thakre is likely to be fielded against BJP’s Nitin Gadkari for the Nagpur Lok Sabha seat.
A meeting of senior Congress leaders was held on Tuesday at Vilas Muttemwar’s residence on Tuesday, where unanimously all the senior leaders including Satish Chaturvedi, Nitin Raut, Vishal Muttemwar and others agreed on Thakre’s name to contest Lok Sabha polls against Gadkari, sources said.
Thakre’s name will be sent to Congress High Command in Delhi and subsequently the official announcement will be made by the Congress party, sources predicted.