Hemant Patil of Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena is the incumbent MP here, but the party and its Mahayuti alliance have given the ticket this time to Baburao Kadam Kohalikar. The other top contenders are Nagesh Ashtikar of Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) for the Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance and Dr BD Chavan of Prakash Ambedkar's Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi