Aspirants from major parties are suffering serious heartburn over being denied official candidature. The BJP and Shiv Sena have been facing the brunt ever since their first list was announced. Protests were staged in places like Latur, where a senior BJP minister's kin organised a road blockade to protest the candidature of the chief minister's personal assistant.

Leaders who were denied tickets are now lobbying to change the candidature, while those who did not find their names on the list are trying to get an official nod. Field you daughter, Khadse told Of the dissidents, senior leader Eknath Khadse, who had quit the BJP cabinet because of corruption allegations, filed his nomination on Tuesday, without waiting for an official nomination. He expected the party to retain him from Muktainagar in Jalgaon district, but the party has told him to field his daughter Rohini instead.