NCP’s Nawab Malik enters polls fray despite BJP’s opposition

Mumbai, 29/10: In what comes as an embarrassment for the BJP, veteran politician Nawab Malik, who is part of Ajit Pawar-led NCP, on Tuesday, filed nomination papers from the Mankhurd Shivaji Nagar Assembly constituency of Mumbai.

Malik is pitted against Maharashtra’s Samajwadi Party President Abu Asim Azmi, who is a three-time sitting MLA.