Tanuja Gholap, is a leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and has been preparing for the assembly elections. However, she did not get a ticket as the Deolali seat went to sitting MLA Saroj Ahire of NCP. Following this, she filed her nomination from Deolalo as an independent candidate even though her elder brother Yogesh Gholap is fighting from the Shiv Sena (UBT).