Days after his exit from the Congress, former Maharashtra minister Baba Siddique joined the Nationalist Congress Occasion on Saturday, reported the Hindustan Instances.
“My situation within the Congress was how curry leaves are used to reinforce the style of meals,” Siddique stated after being inducted into the Nationalist Congress Occasion faction led by by Ajit Pawar, reported NDTV. Siddique claimed that the Congress had been utilizing him to draw Muslim votes.
Siddique stated that he just lately met with former Union minister and dealing president of the Nationalist Congress Occasion Praful Patel, “after which it was determined that I’ve to work within the NCP underneath the management of Ajit Pawar”, reported NDTV.
The event comes a bunch of MLAs led by Ajit Pawar have been recognised as the actual Nationalist Congress Occasion by the Election Fee earlier this week.
In July, Ajit Pawar and several other MLAs of the Nationalist Congress Occasion joined Maharashtra’s ruling coalition comprising the Bharatiya Janata Occasion and the Shiv Sena faction led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde. This cut up within the social gathering, with one faction supporting Ajit Pawar and the opposite backing his uncle, social gathering founder Sharad Pawar.
On the time of his exit from the Congress, Siddique was the chairperson of the Mumbai Regional Congress Committee and on the parliamentary board of the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee. He served as an MLA from the Vandre West Meeting constituency in Mumbai for 3 phrases, starting in 1999, 2004 and 2009.
“I joined the Indian Nationwide Congress social gathering as a younger teenager and it has been a major journey lasting 48 years,” Siddique wrote on social media platform X on Thursday. “In the present day I resign from the first membership of the Indian Nationwide Congress Occasion with speedy impact. There’s quite a bit I’d have preferred to precise however as they are saying some issues are higher left unsaid.”
Siddique is the second Congress chief from Mumbai to depart the social gathering this 12 months after Milind Deora defected to the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena in January. The Congress – as a part of the INDIA bloc – will contest the Lok Sabha election in Maharashtra in partnership with the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) and Nationalist Congress Occasion-Sharadchandra Pawar.
In April 2018, the Enforcement Directorate connected properties price Rs 462 crore linked to Siddique and actual property agency Pyramid Builders in reference to a case underneath the Prevention of Cash Laundering Act.
In 2017, the Enforcement Directorate filed a case in opposition to Siddique, accusing him of misusing his place because the chairperson of Mumbai’s Slum Rehabilitation Authority as a way to give a redevelopment contract to the actual property agency. The case pertains to a mission to rehabilitate the residents of the Jamaat-e-Jamooria slum in Bandra.
