New Delhi: In a big blow to the Congress get together in Maharashtra, senior chief and former state Chief Minister Ashok Chavan joined Bharatiya Janata Celebration on Tuesday. Chavan joined the get together within the presence of Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and different BJP leaders.
Chavan’s joined the BJP only a day after he resigned from the grand outdated get together on Monday. Earlier in the present day, former Maharashtra CM has introduced his resolution to hitch the BJP calling it a “new starting” in his political profession.
Ashok Chavan stated, “Right now it is a new starting of my political profession. I’m formally becoming a member of the BJP of their workplace in the present day. I’m hopeful that we are going to work for the constructive growth of Maharashtra.”
#WATCH | Former Maharashtra CM Ashok Chavan joins the BJP on the get together’s workplace in Mumbai. He lately give up Congress.
Former Congress MLC Amar Rajurkar additionally joined the BJP. pic.twitter.com/2833wY76am
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Ashok Chavan was the Vice President and Normal Secretary of the Maharashtra Pradesh Youth Congress Committee from 1986 to 1995. He served the Maharashtra Legislative Meeting for 3 phrases, beginning in 1999 and ending in Could 2014.
He served because the Chief Minister of Maharashtra State from December 8, 2008, to November 9, 2010. On November 9, 2010, the Congress Celebration requested him to resign from workplace over corruption allegations referring to the Adarsh Housing Society rip-off.
Within the 2014 common elections, Chavan was elected from the Nanded constituency however misplaced the seat in 2019 Pratap Patil Chikhalikar of the BJP.
He’s the third large identify to abandon the Congress ship in Maharashtra. First to go was former South Mumbai MP Milind Deora, adopted by former MLA Baba Siddique. Chavan, who represents Bhokar, Nanded, as an MLA, was reported to have extreme variations with state get together chief Nana Patole.
