Helicopter en route to pick up Shiv Sena leader tilts during landing in Raigad

The pilot of a helicopter was injured after it tilted during landing in Maharashtras Raigad district on Friday a police official said reported news agency PTIThe chopper was scheduled to pick Shiv Sena UBT leader Sushma Andhare for a public rally in connection with the ongoing Lok Sabha polls the police official told PTIThe helicopter got tilted when the pilot tried to land on a makeshift helipad at Mahad around 930 am he saidWhile the pilot suffered injuries the helicopters rotor blades got damaged in the incident he said citing preliminary findingsAs per a live video recording shared by Andhare the chopper was making a landing attempt at an unidentified location and suddenly it seemed to swerve wobble lose balance and then crash with a loud sound in a cloud of dust on an open groundMeanwhile Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shindes son and Shiv Sena candidate Shrikant on Thursday filed nomination from the Kalyan Lok Sabha seat while Union minister Dr Bharati Pawar of the BJP submitted papers from the Dindori constituencyAnother Shiv Sena candidate Hemant Godse filed nomination from the Nashik Lok Sabha constituency in north MaharashtraSena candidate Shrikant Shinde is seeking reelection from the Kalyan constituency near MumbaiIn the financial capital Shiv Sena UBT candidate Amol Kirtikar and Congress nominee Bhushan Patil submitted their papers to election authorities to contest from Mumbai North West and Mumbai North constituencies respectivelyKirtikar is pitted against Shiv Sena MLA Ravindra Waikar while Patil is taking on Union minister Piyush Goyal of the BJPThe ruling Mahayuti alliance of the BJP the Shiv Sena and the NCP took out a grand procession before Dr Pawar and Godse both sitting MPs filed their papers at the Nashik collectors officeChief Minister Shinde deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis Nashik district guardian minister Dadaji Bhuse state cabinet members Girish Mahajan Chhagan Bhujbal and other leaders of the alliance were present on the occasionCM Shinde said Nashik and Dindori in north Maharashtra were bastions of the Shiv SenaBJP and expressed confidence both the Mahayuti candidates will win with huge margins as Prime Minister Narendra Modi has achieved in ten years what Congress could not do in 60 years of its ruleGodse notably had defeated united Nationalist Congress Partys NCP candidate Chhagan Bhujbal from Nashik in 2014 and his nephew Sameer Bhujbal in 2019 Chhagan Bhujbal now a Cabinet minister and member of the Ajit Pawarled NCP was keen on contesting from the seat this time but pulled out of the race laterWith inputs from PTI