New Delhi: In a big blow to the Congress occasion in Maharashtra, senior chief and former state Chief Minister Ashok Chavan joined Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday. Chavan joined the occasion 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Chavan’s joined the BJP only a day after he resigned from the grand outdated occasion on Monday. Earlier at this time, former Maharashtra CM has introduced his determination to hitch the BJP calling it a “new beginning” in his political profession.
Ashok Chavan mentioned, “Today it’s a new beginning of my political career. I am formally joining the BJP in their office today. I am hopeful that we will work for the constructive development of Maharashtra.”
#WATCH | Former Maharashtra CM Ashok Chavan joins the BJP on the occasion’s workplace in Mumbai. He just 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 General Secretary of the Maharashtra Pradesh Youth Congress Committee from 1986 to 1995. He served the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly for 3 phrases, beginning in 1999 and ending in May 2014.
He served because the Chief Minister of Maharashtra State from December 8, 2008, to November 9, 2010. On November 9, 2010, the Congress Party requested him to resign from workplace over corruption allegations referring to the Adarsh Housing Society rip-off.
In the 2014 basic elections, Chavan was elected from the Nanded constituency however misplaced the seat in 2019 Pratap Patil Chikhalikar of the BJP.
He is the third large title 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 occasion chief Nana Patole.Â
