Candidates in the Satara Lok Sabha constituency have been campaigning hard. NCP Sharad Pawar faction candidate Shashikant Shinde starts his day early, visiting villages and interacting with the locals, especially the women and young voters.

A close confidant of NCP chief Sharad Pawar, Shashikant is a former APMC director and is currently the working president of Maharashtra Rajya Mathadi, Transport and General Kamgar Union. In the past, he has been elected MLA two times each from Jaoli and Koregaon. In 2019, Shashikant was defeated by Shiv Sena candidate Mahesh Shinde, but he was nominated to the legislative council by the NCP in 2020.