"Will achieve respectable victory from Beed": BJP candidate Pankaja Gopinath Munde

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], March 21 (ANI): BJP leader Pankaja Gopinath Munde on Thursday said she will achieve "very respectable victory" from the Lok Sabha elections from Beed constituency in Maharashtra.
Speaking to the media on Thursday, the BJP leader said, "I am completely confident about my victory. This is because we (the BJP) are entering the Lok Sabha elections with the development work we have done. This is the first time I will contest the Lok Sabha polls."
"With my 22 years of experience in politics and the relationships I have built with people, I am confident that I will achieve a very respectable victory," added the BJP leader.
For the Beed Lok Sabha seat, the party named Pankaja Gopinath Munde as its candidate, instead of her sister Pritam Gopinath Rao Munde, who has been holding the seat for the last two terms.
Her younger sister, Pritam, has been representing the Beed seat since 2014. Their late father, Gopinath Munde, had won the Beed parliamentary constituency in 2009 and 2014.
However, his death in 2014 led to Pritam contesting and winning that year's bypoll from there, along with the 2019 elections. With Pankaja's candidature now, the BJP has given candidature to the third member of the same family.
In the Lok Sabha elections of 2019, Pritam Gopinathrao Munde, representing the BJP, emerged victorious as the winning candidate from the Beed Lok Sabha constituency.
Pritam Gopinathrao Munde secured a total of 678175 votes, while her closest competitor, Bajrang Manohar Sonwane of the NCP, garnered 509807 votes and faced defeat with a margin of 168368 votes.
Elections to the 48 Lok Sabha seats in Maharashtra will be held in five phases on April 19, April 26, May 7, May 13 and May 20 and votes will be counted on June 4. (ANI)