BJP fields 26/11 prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam from Mumbai North Central, drops two-time MP Poonam Mahajan

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New Delhi, April 27 (ANI): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has fielded Ujjwal Nikam, who was a special public prosecutor in the Mumbai 26/11 terror attack, from Mumbai North Central in the Lok Sabha elections. Nikam, a senior public prosecutor, has appeared for the government in several high-profile cases, including the 26/11 Mumbai attack case. Ujjwal Nikam will be contesting the polls against Congress's Varsha Gaikwad. The BJP decided to drop sitting MP Poonam Mahajan, the two-time party MP from the Mumbai North Central seat. In 2014, she secured victory from the Mumbai North Central seat, triumphing over incumbent MP Priya Dutt, daughter of the late actor and Congress leader Sunil Dutt. Poonam repeated this success in 2019 too.

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