Speaking at an election meeting organised by the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, Dr Aher said that he would not have asked for a ticket for the second successive term but he wanted government health services to reach out to the poor people residing in slums and rural, tribal areas. He said that the BJP did not have the tradition of people refusing to quit chairs. Dr Aher had been elected to the Assembly from Nashik constituency in 1995 and was inducted in the State cabinet as the minister for health.