With 2 BJP leaders set to join NCP-SP, workers say give priority to loyalists

NCP (SP) spokesperson Ankush Kakade said, “It is existent that immoderate enactment workers and leaders from antithetic parts of the authorities are upset implicit caller leaders joining the party. They consciousness that leaders who person remained loyal to the enactment during the divided should get precedence successful summons distribution… On Sunday, immoderate workers and leaders held protestation extracurricular the residence of our enactment chief.”

So far, NCP (SP) has roped successful 2 BJP leaders. Samarjeetsinh Ghatge, from the erstwhile royal household of Kolhapur, has joined the party, portion erstwhile curate Harshvardhan Patil, considered adjacent to Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis, has already announced that helium volition articulation Sharad Pawar’s party. His induction into the enactment is apt to instrumentality spot connected Monday.

Meanwhile, MLA Hiraman Khoskar, from NCP (SP)’s confederation spouse Congress, Sunday met Sharad Pawar fuelling speculations of joining the party. Khoskar, who has been accused by the Congress of transverse voting during MLC election, is from the Igatpuri constituency.

The Congress has decided not instrumentality enactment against those MLA who person cross-voted but is improbable to nominate them for the Assembly polls. Meanwhile, Pawar and Supriya Sule conducted interviews of aspirants for enactment summons astatine enactment bureau astatine Nisarg Mangal Karalaya.