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Congress leader Vishwajeet Kadam said he was elected to work for the progress of Sangli district and Maharashtra and won’t switch to the BJP without taking voters into confidence.
MLA Ravindra Dhangekar had defeated the BJP candidate in the Kasba Peth Assembly bypoll and is a probable Congress candidate for the Pune Lok Sabha seat.
The Congress has faced defeat in Pune seat consecutively in 2014 and 2019.
Raut said talks with the Congress on seat-sharing has to start from ‘zero’ as the latter has “not won any seat” in the state.
The BJP had won the Pune Lok Sabha seat both in 2014 and 2019 by a big margin. But the seat got vacated after the demise of sitting MP Girish Bapat in March this year.