Reportedly former opposition leader in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and city congress veteran ravi raja on thursday joined the bjp ahead of the upcoming maharashtra assembly polls. Senior bjp leader and deputy chief minister devendra fadnavis and the party’s mumbai chief ashish Shelar welcomed raja to the saffron party. raja said he has resigned from the congress, ending his 44 years of association with the grand old party. He has sent his resignation to the congress president mallikarjun Kharge.
Meanwhile Shelar said “Raja is like an encyclopedia for issues in Mumbai. He is an old friend of ours. raja and his supporters’ decision to join the bjp would strengthen the party’s prospects ahead of maharashtra assembly polls". The congress and shiv sena (UBT) have both fielded candidates in Miraj (Sangli district), Solapur South (Solapur district), Digras (Yavatmal district), and Dharavi (Mumbai). In Paranda (Dharashiv district), the Sena (UBT) candidate will be squaring off with Sharad Pawar’s ncp while a congress nominee will contest against NCP-SP in Pandharpur (Solapur district).
Furthermore the seat-sharing talks in the MVA saw a lot of headaches and heartaches and the outcome is that while things may seem smooth on the surface, there is simmering anger beneath. For example, just recently shiv sena (UBT) mp Sanjay Raut accused the congress of being arbitrary. Uddhav’s shiv sena said, “We have been urging the congress not to field candidates as friendly fights. We have been asking them to withdraw their candidate from Miraj but they are not listening.”
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