A day after quitting the Congress, former Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan on Tuesday joined the Bharatiya Janata Occasion.
On Monday, Chavan had additionally give up as an MLA of the Maharashtra Meeting.
“Right now it’s a brand new starting of my political profession,” Chavan advised reporters, reported ANI. “I’m formally becoming a member of the Bharatiya Janata Occasion of their workplace right now in presence of Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.”
The senior occasion chief’s exit from the Congress got here two days after that of former Maharashtra minister Baba Siddique, who give up the occasion to affix the Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Occasion. In January, Congress chief Milind Deora had defected to the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena.
Fadnavis had mentioned on Monday that “a number of good leaders from the Congress are in contact with the BJP”, reported India Right now. “These leaders who’re linked with the plenty are feeling suffocated in Congress,” Fadnavis mentioned.
#WATCH | Mumbai: Former Maharashtra CM Ashok Chavan says, “Right now it is a new starting of my political profession. I’m formally becoming a member of the BJP of their workplace right now…I’m hopeful that we are going to work for the constructive improvement of Maharashtra.” pic.twitter.com/tU9PqiV5js
— ANI (@ANI) February 13, 2024
Whereas in Congress, Chavan had held a number of senior posts. He has been the Lok Sabha MP from Nanded and was the president of the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee from 2015 to 2019.
On Monday, Chavan denied that the Centre’s white paper on alleged mismanagement of the Indian financial system previous to 2014 prompted his exit from the Congress. The white paper, offered on the final day of the Finances Session of Parliament final week had talked about the Adarsh Constructing rip-off through which Chavan was implicated, resulting in his resignation because the chief minister in 2010.
Hours after Chavan left the occasion on Monday, senior Congress chief and former Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan described the choice as “unlucky”, reported PTI.
“That is an unlucky choice,” he mentioned. “By no means thought an individual like him would take such a step.”
On Tuesday, Congress MP Jairam Ramesh mentioned that the BJP’s “washer” might be extra enticing to these politicians who’re susceptible.
“When associates and colleagues go away a political occasion that has given them a lot — maybe way more they deserved — it’s at all times a matter of anguish,” he mentioned in a tweet. “However to those that are susceptible, THAT Washing Machine will at all times show extra enticing than ideological dedication or private loyalties.”
Ramesh mentioned that the “betrayers” fail to grasp that their exit opens alternatives for these whose progress that they had been hampering.
When associates and colleagues go away a political occasion that has given them a lot—maybe way more they deserved—it’s at all times a matter of anguish. However to those that are susceptible, THAT Washing Machine will at all times show extra enticing than ideological dedication or private…
— Jairam Ramesh (@Jairam_Ramesh) February 12, 2024
